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Mann Act

(Encyclopedia) Mann Act: see Mann, James Robert.

Patriot Act

(Encyclopedia) Patriot Act: see USA PATRIOT Act.

Dawes Act

(Encyclopedia) Dawes Act or General Allotment Act, 1887, passed by the U.S. Congress to provide for the granting of landholdings (allotments, usually 160 acres/65 hectares) to individual Native…

Canada Act

(Encyclopedia) Canada Act, also called the Constitutional Act of 1982, which made Canada a fully sovereign state. The British Parliament approved it on Mar. 25, 1982, and Queen Elizabeth II…

Volstead Act

(Encyclopedia) Volstead Act: see under Volstead, Andrew Joseph.

Taft-Hartley Labor Act

(Encyclopedia) Taft-Hartley Labor Act, 1947, passed by the U.S. Congress, officially known as the Labor-Management Relations Act. Sponsored by Senator Robert Alphonso Taft and Representative Fred…

Acts

Acts Ch. 1: The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of… Ch. 2: And when the day of Pentecost was fully come… Ch. 3: Now Peter and John went up together into… Ch. 4: And as they spake…

Acts: 1

Acts Chapter 1 1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, 2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the…

Acts: 2

Acts Chapter 2 1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty…

Acts: 3

Acts Chapter 3 1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. 2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom…