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Nonintercourse Act

(Encyclopedia)Nonintercourse Act: see Embargo Act of 1807. ...

Mann Act

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

Patriot Act

(Encyclopedia)Patriot Act: see USA PATRIOT Act. ...

Volstead Act

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

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...

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 newspapers, pamp...

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...

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...

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 proclaimed it on Apr. 17,...