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WorksheetsFCLE Landmark Executive Actions
Total questions: 9
Worksheet time: 5mins
This provided for the independence of Cuba from Spain.
Treaty of Paris of 1898
Versailles Treaty
Louisiana Purchase of 1803
Adams-Onis Treaty of 1821
This executive action doubled the size of the United States when territory was bought from France.
Treaty of Paris of 1898
Pendleton Act of 1883
Compromise of 1850
Louisiana Purchase of 1803
In this landmark executive action the United States and Spain defined the western limits of the Louisiana Purchase and Spain surrendered its claims to the Pacific Northwest
The Louisiana Purchase
Adams-Onis Treaty of 1821
Treaty of Paris
Pendleton Act of 1883
This was done by President Lincoln in 1861, which allowed military authorities to arrest and detain individuals who were deemed threatening to military operations.
Suspension of habeas corpus
Affirmative Action
Presidential War Powers
Military desegregation
This executive action by President Roosevelt during WWII, was the forced relocation by the United States government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps.
Affirmative Action
The Treaty of Paris of 1898
Japanese-American Internment
The Homestead Act of 1850
In 1948, President Truman signed an executive order that:
Freed the slaves
desegregated the military
bought land from France
Made Hawaii a U.S. territory
A set of procedures designed to eliminate unlawful discrimination among applicants and remedy the results of prior discrimination.
Habeas Corpus
Selective Service
Military desegregation
Affirmative Action
The enforcement of civil rights-related supreme court decisions accomplished the following.
protected civil rights and liberties by striking down laws that violated the Constitution
gave the president more power
desegregated the military
established selective service
A federal law intended to check the United States President's powers to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of Congress.
Affirmative Action
Compromise of 1850
The War Powers Resolution of 1973.
Homestead Act of 1862
