*Citizenship for former slaves

*Includes the equal protection clause

*Post-Civil War amendment

*Gave voting rights to all African American men

*Post-Civil War amendment

*Allows Congress to collect an income tax

*Progressive amendment

*Allows people to vote directly for their US Senators

*Progressive amendment

*Prohibits the production, transportation, and sale of alcohol

*Result of the Temperance Movement

*Progressive amendment

*Gives women the right to vote

*Result of the Suffrage Movement

*Progressive amendment

*Repealed the 18th Amendment

*Made alcohol legal again

*Great Depression amendment

*Limits a president to two terms

*Post-WWII amendment

*Makes poll taxes illegal

*Results in increased political participation of minorities

*Civil Rights amendment

*Lowers the voting age to 18

*Result of a protest movement because the draft age was 18 but the voting age was 21

*Vietnam War amendment

*Supreme Court case

*Made segregation legal ("separate but equal")

*Gilded Age court case

*Supreme Court case

*Police now have to read you your rights if you are arrested

*Civil rights case

*Supreme Court case

*14th Amendment protection applies to all ethnic and racial groups, including Hispanics

*Civil Rights case

*Supreme Court case

*Ruled that segregation in schools was unconstitutional

*Led to the movement to desegregate the South

*Civil Rights case

*Supreme Court case

*Students have First Amendment rights in school

*Vietnam War case

*Supreme Court case

*Made abortion legal

*Civil Rights case

*Passed to regulate railroad rates

*Gilded Age/Progressive Era law

*Purpose was to assimilate Native Americans

*Divided Native American land into individual family plots and sold the remaining land

*Gilded Age law

*Prohibited the immigration of Chinese workers

*Caused by competition for jobs on the West Coast

*Gilded Age law

*Prohibits monopolies

*Improves competition between businesses

*Gilded Age/Progressive Era law

*First law to protect American consumers

*Caused by the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

*Leads to the Food and Drug Administration

*Progressive Era law

*Requires that meat factories be inspected by federal government employees

*Food safety law

*Caused by the publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

*Progressive Era law

*Restricted freedom of speech during World War I

*Made it illegal to speak out against the draft or against the war

*World War I law

*Created the National Park Service

*Progressive Era Law

*Established the draft

*World War I law

*Provides an income for the elderly, disabled, and unemployed

*Great Depression/New Deal law

*Insures bank deposits and savings up to $250,000

*Great Depression/New Deal law

*Regulates the stock market to prevent another major crash

*Great Depression/New Deal law

*Created a series of dam projects to create jobs and electricity in much of the rural South

*Great Depression/New Deal law

*Established the first widespread immigration quota in US history

*Roaring 20s law

*All Native Americans born in the US are US citizens

*Roaring 20s law

*Led to the internment of Japanese Americans

*World War II

*Desegregated the military

*President Harry Truman signed it

*Post-World War II

*Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin

*Civil Rights law

*Prohibits literacy tests and grandfather clauses

*Removes barriers to voting

*Ensures 15th Amendment rights

*Leads to an increase in minority participation in politics

*Civil Rights law

*Signed by President Dwight Eisenhower

*Made it possible to easily travel cross country by car

*Postwar boom law

*Created to help veterans returning from WWII to adjust to civilian life

*Provided assistance for college and housing to veterans

*World War II law

*Allowed the US to provide the Allies with war materials before we joined World War II

*World War II law

*Passed in response to an incident in which a North Vietnamese ship attacked a US ship

*Gave the president unprecedented power to direct military action WITHOUT a Congressional declaration of war

*This is what started US involvement in Vietnam

*Vietnam War law

*Signed towards the end of the Vietnam War

*Restored the power to carry out war back to the legislative branch (Congress)

*Restored the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches

*Vietnam War law

*Resulted in the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in the 1970s

*Passed in response to the environmental movement of the 1970s

*1970s law

*Passed during President Reagan's War on Drugs

*Purpose was to stop the use of illegal drugs in the US

*1980s law

*Passed to help women get equal education opportunities

*Schools that receive money from the federal government cannot practice gender discrimination

*Women's movement law

*Would have prevented the government or businesses from treating men and women differently

*Promoted by Betty Friedan's National Organization of Women

*Opposed by Phyllis Schlafly's conservative Stop-ERA movement

*Women's movement law (never passed)

*Offers government-supported health insurance to all Americans

*Purpose was to make health insurance more affordable

*Signed by President Obama

*Sometimes called "Obamacare"

*2010s law

*Passed after the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and signed by President George W. Bush

*Purpose was to find suspected terrorists

*Allows the government to listen to phone conversations, etc., of suspected terrorists, which is unconstitutional

*2000s/ post-9/11 law