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Elizabethan Poor Laws
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Colonial Period
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Declaration of Independence
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Pre-Civil War Era
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US Constitution
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Naturalization Act
increased the residence requirements for naturalization for free, white persons to 5 years from the 2; (created by the Federalist Party) -
Louisiana Purchase from the France
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National Expansion/Reforming
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Civil War
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Homestead Act
- spend 5 years on a land it's considered yours
- intended to push natives out of west for money and gold = citizens are required to give a percentage of money from your crops
- gave all people the right to 160 acres of "free land"
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Emancipation Proclamation
Created by racist Pres. Abraham Lincoln, -
13th amendment
abolishing slavery, except as a punishment for crime -
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Post Civil War / Reconstruction
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Freedmen Bureau
was disbanned in 1872 -
Civil Right Act
That allowed every child born in the US to be a citizen. -
14th Amendment
- naturalization to all born here, (excludes the chinese and the natives) this has been amended
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15th Amendment
the right to vote "no matter race, color, or previous condition of servitude" -
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Industrial Rise of America
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Jim Crow Laws
state and local legalization of racial segregation,
- denying the right to vote and own a gun (denying the 2nd amend)
(Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896)- this was disbanded in 1955
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Chinese Exclusion Act
built a layer of racial prejudice; kept them from working temporarily -> then permanently, allowing them 2 get certified to go back to their origin country
- 1888 - Pres. Cleveland canceled the certificates and many were forced to stay -
Dawnes Act
- permitted naturalization 2 be a "citizen" as a Native, if not living on the reservation
- if in the reservation= "member of dependent nation "
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Progressive Era - New Era
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WW I
when the US joined -
Sheppard--Towner Act
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Great Depression and New Deal
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Social Security Act
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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WW II
when the US joined -
Economic Opportunity Act
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Food Stamp Act
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Economy Opportunity Act
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Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)
federal legislation addressing child abuse and neglect, provides the states guidance and funding for support of prevention, assessment, investigation, prosecution and treatment. Some of this may be newly amended and not from the OG document -
Indian Child Welfare Act
was intended to protect Native American children from being taken from their homes, and "promote the stablility and security of Indian tribes and families..." and creating Federal standards in "providing assistance to Indian tribes in the operation of child and family service programs"