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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…Antitrust Act
(Encyclopedia) Antitrust Act: see Clayton Antitrust Act; Sherman Antitrust Act.Mann Act
(Encyclopedia) Mann Act: see Mann, James Robert.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…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…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…Volstead Act
(Encyclopedia) Volstead Act: see under Volstead, Andrew Joseph.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…Nonimportation Act
(Encyclopedia) Nonimportation Act: see Embargo Act of 1807.Nonintercourse Act
(Encyclopedia) Nonintercourse Act: see Embargo Act of 1807.Trending
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