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Smith Act
(Encyclopedia)Smith Act, 1940, passed by the U.S. Congress as the Alien Registration Act of 1940. The act, which made it an offense to advocate or belong to a group that advocated the violent overthrow of the gover...Sedition Act
(Encyclopedia)Sedition Act: see Alien and Sedition Acts. ...Preemption Act
(Encyclopedia)Preemption Act, statute passed (1841) by the U.S. Congress in response to the demands of the Western states that squatters be allowed to preempt lands. Pioneers often settled on public lands before th...Test Act
(Encyclopedia)Test Act, 1673, English statute that excluded from public office (both military and civil) all those who refused to take the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, who refused to receive the communion acc...Antitrust Act
(Encyclopedia)Antitrust Act: see Clayton Antitrust Act; Sherman Antitrust Act. ...Homestead Act
(Encyclopedia)Homestead Act, 1862, passed by the U.S. Congress. It provided for the transfer of 160 acres (65 hectares) of unoccupied public land to each homesteader on payment of a nominal fee after five years of ...Neutrality Act
(Encyclopedia)Neutrality Act, law passed by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Aug., 1935. It was designed to keep the United States out of a possible European war by banning shi...Nonimportation Act
(Encyclopedia)Nonimportation Act: see Embargo Act of 1807. ...Nonintercourse Act
(Encyclopedia)Nonintercourse Act: see Embargo Act of 1807. ...Mann Act
(Encyclopedia)Mann Act: see Mann, James Robert. ...Browse by Subject
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