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Significance: Established the Federal Reserve System as the central banking system of the United States. Year Passed: 1913

Significance: Allows for the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government. Year Passed: 1966

Significance: Established comprehensive federal and state regulations to limit emissions from both stationary (industrial) sources and mobile sources. Year Passed: 1970

Significance: Restored and modified several provisions of the Patriot Act, placed limitations on the collection of telecommunication metadata on U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency. Year Passed: 2015

Significance: Makes it unlawful for any creditor to discriminate against any applicant, with respect to any aspect of a credit transaction, on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, or age. Year Passed: 1974

Significance: Encouraged Western migration by providing settlers land. Year Passed: 1862

Significance: Provides for the conservation and protection of ecosystems upon which threatened and endangered species of fish, wildlife, and plants depend. Year Passed: 1973

Significance: Protects the rights of employees and employers, to encourage collective bargaining, and to curtail certain private sector labor and management practices. Year Passed: 1935

Significance: Promoted the financial stability of the United States by improving accountability and transparency in the financial system, to end 'too big to fail', and to protect the American taxpayer by ending bailouts. Year Passed: 2010

Significance: American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II. Year Passed: 1948$

Significance: Laid the foundation for constitutional law. Year Passed: 1215

Significance: Overhauled the healthcare system, providing more Americans with access to affordable health insurance, improving the quality of healthcare and health insurance. Year Passed: 2010

Significance: Implemented comprehensive reforms to enhance corporate responsibility, enhance financial disclosures and combat corporate and accounting fraud. Year Passed: 2002

Significance: Provided funding to primary and secondary education, emphasized high standards and accountability, and aimed to shorten the achievement gaps between students. Year Passed: 1965

Significance: Abolished the slave trade in the British Empire. Year Passed: 1807

Significance: Created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income. Year Passed: 1935

Significance: Created the United States Housing Authority within the US Department of the Interior, and funded subsidies to local public housing agencies to improve living conditions for low-income families. Year Passed: 1937

Significance: Sets minimum standards for most voluntarily established pension and health plans in private industry to provide protection for individuals in these plans. Year Passed: 1974

Significance: Authorized the removal of Native American tribes to federal territory west of the Mississippi. Year Passed: 1830

Significance: Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin and ended unequal voter registration requirements and racial segregation. Year Passed: 1964

Significance: Made several significant changes to the definition of 'disability' under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Year Passed: 2008

Significance: Required disclosure of important financial information through the registration of securities. Year Passed: 1933

Significance: First United States federal law to define citizenship and affirm all citizens' rights to equal protection. Year Passed: 1866

Significance: Governed secondary trading of securities in the United States, and established the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to enforce the federal securities laws. Year Passed: 1934

Significance: Defined and strengthened the right to court review of a prisoner's detention. Year Passed: 1679

Significance: Set out certain constitutional rights. Year Passed: 1689

Significance: Provided veterans of World War II funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing. Year Passed: 1944

Significance: Declared the freedom of all slaves in Confederate territory. Year Passed: 1863

Significance: Outlawed monopolistic business practices. Year Passed: 1890

Significance: Established Medicare and Medicaid, two government-run health care programs that cover senior citizens, the poor, and the disabled. Year Passed: 1965

Significance: Expanded the authority of U.S. law enforcement agencies for the stated purpose of fighting terrorism in the United States and abroad. Year Passed: 2001

Significance: Determined succession to the English throne. Year Passed: 1701

Significance: Prohibited racial discrimination in voting, ensuring that all Americans could exercise their right to vote. Year Passed: 1965

Significance: Established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and included banking reforms, some of which designed to control speculation. Year Passed: 1933

Significance: Aimed at eliminating various corrupt practices within the labor movement, to bring democracy to unions, and to introduce financial transparency. Year Passed: 1959

Significance: Expanded the authority of U.S. law enforcement for the stated purpose of fighting terrorist acts in the United States and abroad. Year Passed: 2001

Significance: Prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications, and governmental activities. Year Passed: 1990

Significance: Requires covered employers to provide employees job-protected and unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons. Year Passed: 1993