The introduction to environmentalism clearly shows the importance of being earth friendly. We need to start recognizing the environment problems and should come up solutions to save our environment and make a healthy environment for living. In other words, recognizing a problem is the first step in finding the solution.
The Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) This law, also known as the Wages and Hours Act, made labor's long struggle for an eight-how day, and for the abolition of child labor, the law of the land. The text will be found at 29 U.S.C. Â§201. The Act prohibits the employment of children under the age of 16; requires employers to pay a minimum wage; and obliges employers to pay overtime pay when employees work more than 40 hours in a week.
27-30, enacted April 9, 1866, was the first United States federal law to define US citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. It was mainly intended to protect the civil rights of Africans born in or brought to America, in the wake of the American Civil War.This legislation was enacted by Congress in 1865 but vetoed by President Andrew Johnson. In April 1866 Congress again passed the bill.he activities of insurgent groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) undermined the act; and it failed to immediately secure the civil rights of African Americans. Since 1866 it has been illegal in the U.S. to discriminate in jobs and housing on the basis of race.