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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. ...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. ...Browse by Subject
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