social science legislation

Bill that provided for farm mortgage relief and a domestic allotment plan that restricted production to raise agricultural prices

Bill passed with the goal of full production during World War II; provided price guarantees for cotton, peanuts, soybeans, and other specialty crops

Bill that contributed to racial equality and influenced Dixiecrats to switch to the Republican Party

Bill outlining federal policy toward Native Americans; forced them to assimilate

Measure that set up training camps, provided grants to small businesses and farmers, and aided community anti-poverty programs

Law that lowered income tax rates by a large amount over three years

Bill that suspended full retirement benefits for Supreme Court Justices

Bill that legalized the national banking holiday that Roosevelt had previously declared

Bill passed under the Roosevelt administration in an effort to reduce farm foreclosures; deemed unconstitutional in Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford

Law that offered larger subsidies for larger amounts of unused land than the Soil Bank Act had

Bill that established the Works Progress Administration in April 1935

Bill that increased government regulation of retirement plans

Bill obligating the federal government to strive for “maximum production, maximum employment, and maximum purchasing power”

Bill that established minimum wages and maximum hours; outlawed hiring workers under 16 years of age

Bill passed to help protect small farmers from bankruptcy

Bill passed to help protect small farmers from bankruptcy

Theoretical law which Roosevelt did not support due to an unwillingness to upset southern voters

Bill passed under the Hoover administration; set aside $150 million for the prevention of foreclosures

Bill that was a part of a new age of consumer protection

Legislative act that helped World War II veterans purchase suburban homes and gain access to education and skills training

Bill that distinguished between investment and commercial banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Bill that created the Home Owners Loan Corporation

Bill that promoted residency in the western United States

Laws that imposed harsh immigration limitations, triggering a decrease in European immigration

Bill that facilitated the rebirth of Native American culture, which was previously stymied under the Dawes Act

Bill that outlawed bond trade with countries that did not pay their debts to the United States

Bill that would enable the president to appoint a new federal judge for each one that had served for at least 10 years and did not resign within six months after turning 70; also known as the court-packing plan

Annex to the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1962 that mandated the rigorous testing of new drugs

Bill created by Marriner Eccles; established the Federal Housing Administration and Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation

Bill that put anti-trust laws on hold and gave workers the right to collective bargaining

Bill that established automobile safety standards and provided for recalls in cases of unsafe vehicles

Bill that outlawed shipment of weapons to all warring nations, even non-aggressors

Bill that outlawed the supply of private American loans to all warring nations and shipment of weapons to third parties that joined a war

Bill that instituted a travel ban, outlawed shipment of weapons to nations experiencing civil wars, and established the cash and carry policy

Bill passed under the Hoover administration; limited the use of injunctions against protesters

Bill deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on the grounds that the federal government could not mandate a pension plan in the railroad industry due to a lack of constitutional power

Bill that established the most favored nation provision, allowing the United States to lower trade barriers for any other nation that lowered trade barriers for the United States

Bill passed in order to balance the federal budget, a concept associated with fiscal responsibility

Bill that provided for a maximum tax rate of 75% on incomes above $50,000; originally included a maximum tax rate of 79%, a federal inheritance tax, and a gradual corporate income tax

Bill passed to regulate financial markets, giving the Federal Trade Commission the duty of supervising new securities

Bill that created the Securities and Exchange Commission

High tariff that passed Congress at an inopportune time; exacerbated economic problems in 1929

Bill that provided for pensions for the elderly, unemployed, and disabled

Bill that paid subsidies to farmers who placed land in a soil bank, agreeing not to cultivate it

Bill that ended processing taxes and acreage quotas, which favored large landowners; sent subsidy checks directly to sharecroppers

Bill that limited solidarity strikes, enabled states to outlaw union-only shops, and demanded that union leaders affirm the absence of communists in their organizations

Bill that caused a federal deficit by increasing spending and reducing taxes; started as John F. Kennedy’s idea and ultimately pushed through Congress by Lyndon Johnson

Bill that made the Philippines an American commonwealth and promised to give it national sovereignty in 10 years

Bill that contributed to racial equality and influenced Dixiecrats to switch to the Republican Party

Bill that sought to give employees and employers equal bargaining powers and outlawed company unions

Bill that established the United States Housing Authority

Piece of legislation supported by the ruling in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish