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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.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…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…Patriot Act
(Encyclopedia) Patriot Act: see USA PATRIOT Act.Volstead Act
(Encyclopedia) Volstead Act: see under Volstead, Andrew Joseph.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…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…Stamp Act
(Encyclopedia) Stamp Act, 1765, revenue law passed by the British Parliament during the ministry of George Grenville. The first direct tax to be levied on the American colonies, it required that all…Trending
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