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//Dr. Roberta McKnight//
=Laws that Shaped Our Nation: Political Issues for Periods 1900s - 2000s=

• 1910 Women’s Peace Party Formed (first national women's political party) || • Federal Reserve Act of [|1913] created a "permanent national central bank" for the first time in the history of the United States || • National [|Prohibition] Act (sale of alcohol banned nationally) || • 1938 [|Fair Labor and Standards Act] (established minimum wage and overtime pay) || • 1947 [|Taft-Hartley] Act (placed restrictions on labor unions) || • 1954 [|Segregation]was upheld (courts believed that it was not unlawfully for races to separate for public events and in education and for public facilities)
 * //__ Laws that Shaped Our Nation (Politics) __// ||
 * ** 1900s ** || • 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act (Congress forced slaughter housed to clean up their act)
 * ** 1910s ** || • [|Income Tax] added to the Constitution (wages began to be taxed)
 * ** 1920s ** || • 19th Amendment [|Women’s Suffrage] (gave women the right to vote)
 * ** 1930s ** || • 1933 [|National Labor Relations Act](protect the rights of employees and employers)
 * ** 1940 **s || • 1942 Fair [|Employment Act](barred discrimination based on demographics)
 * ** 1950s ** || • Civil Rights Act of [|1957] (gave federal prosecutors the right to obtain an injunction against interference with the right to vote)

|| • 1964 [|24th]Amendment Ratified (no taxation to vote for any federal office) • 1965 [|Voting Rights Act] (outlawed discrimination against blacks for voting) || • 1972[| Watergate]scandal (Nixon's part in the Watergate Hotel scandal) || • The Vietnam [|Memorial]is erected in Washington D.C. || • 1993 Family and [|Medical Leave Act](gave families unpaid medical leave time for 12 weeks out of each calendar year if legal relationship is met according to the law) || • 2009 First Black president elected to the Unites States (President Barak Obama ran the first [|technology infused election] in the history of our nation) || References
 * ** 1960s ** || • 1961 [|23rd] Amendment Ratified (gave the District of Columbis the right to 3 representatives in Congress)
 * ** 1970s ** || • [|26th Amendment Ratified](gave 18 year olds the right to vote)
 * ** 1980s ** || • Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first [|female Supreme Court Justice]
 * ** 1990s ** || • The United States played world policeman and invaded [|Kuwait]
 * ** 2000 **s || • [|2001] No Child Left Behind (Legislation that was designed to close the learning gap for all students in all grades)

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