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First is the Emergency Banking Act. The first things that Roosevelt did when he was president was to get Congress to pass the Emergency Banking Act. On the beginning on the day of February 14th of the year of 1933, Michigan had been hit particularly hard by the Great Depression, declared an eight-day bank holiday. Fears of other bank closures spread from state to state as people rushed to withdraw their money. Within weeks, thirty-six other states had held their own bank holidays in an…

The Voting Rights Act promptly began after the Civil Rights Act of 1960. The act was signed by President Dwight Eisenhower and it became the platform for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The 1960 Civil Rights Act was enabled in order to protect the right to vote for African-Americans It established penalties against anyone who threatened or attempted to deny any African-American to vote. It wasn’t such a success in itself, but it did build a bridge to possibility. Such possibility was furthered by…

An act where the government can provide higher security for our country. An act that further protects Americans. The Patriot act strengthens and improves America by providing the appropriate tools to intercept terrorism in America. Providing America with the maximum security and doing everything to protect us from events such as 9/11 from happening again, is the governments goal with placing the Patriot Act. The one reason many Americans oppose the Patriot act is because of its little success.…

The Patriot Act The department of Justice (DOJ) has many different jobs to fulfill in regards to keeping our nation safe. But, the DOJ has one main priority, and that is to prevent future terrorist acts within the United States (US) , and when warranted outside of the US. In a post-9/11 world, meaning after the attacks on the US on September 11th, 2001, the Patriot Act, has played a key role in assisting the DOJ in preventing future acts of terrorism. The writer will examine the pros and cons…

legislature could not create an act quickly enough.[5] Because of this, quiet bitterness began to form in the place of public racism. While the Japanese and other eastern Asians were barred from entering the country in 1924, forty-two years of intense, bitter dislike for the Japanese did nothing but fan the flames of American Nativist policies. Denis Kearney stated that the Japanese and other East Asians, “Must Go.” [6] While the Chinese Exclusion Act was the first act of its kind in American…

extra for every piece of printed paper we use" said Mr.Pierce. The stamp act was made in the year of 1765 by the British on the American colonies. It was said that they straight forward had to pay for every piece of paper printed. This includes newspaper, magazines, and legal documents. The stamp act was sponsored by George Grenville which was the first one to place the first direct tax. The whole reason for the stamp act was because of the French and Indian War which was held in the…

In 2001 with the passing of the “not so” Patriot Act, new powers were granted to the executive branch that allowed them to suspend due process of any suspect and enact wartime methods of extracting data due to national security or simply deny these civilians their legal rights.(Hunt, 2014) The Patriot Act, was established as an anti-terrorist tool, but quickly added to the nationalist tool box in militant response to civil opposition. The utilization of this militant tool to impede civilians…

It was a cool, quiet day on March 22, 1756. The Kenway family was having a small uprise in the sitting room. The uprise was caused by the Stamp Act of 1756, the The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The struggle would push the colonists to smuggling paper items and made them rebel. It would soon become hard to live due to having to pay for…

Sherman Anti-Trust Act The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 (15 U.S.C.A. ), the first and most noteworthy of the U.S. antitrust laws, was marked into law by President Benjamin Harrison and is named after its essential supporter, Ohio Senator John Sherman. The predominant financial hypothesis supporting antitrust laws in the United States is that the general population is best served by free rivalry in exchange and industry. At the point when organizations reasonably seek the buyer's dollar,…

The Stamp Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 22, 1765. It gave taxes to all American Colonists and required them to pay tax on every piece of printed paper they used. The money they got from the taxes was used to help pay the costs of defending and protecting the American frontier. Many colonist were angry and everybody started having commotions about it. “Hey! Have you heard about the new law that just passed?” Davis asked, as he was drinking coffee. “No, what does it do?”…