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| x Alien and Sedition Acts |
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The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress, who were waging an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. They were signed into law by President John Adams....
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| x Clean Air Act |
The Clean Air Act Extension of 1970 (84 Stat. 1676, Public Law 91-604) is a United States federal law that requires the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and enforce regulations to protect the general public from exposure to airborne...
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| x Digital Millennium Copyright Act |
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The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a United States copyright law that implements two 1996 treaties of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services...
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| x Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act |
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA or the Buckley Amendment) is a United States federal law codified at 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, with implementing regulations in title 34, part 99 of the Code of Federal Regulations. The...
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| x Harrison Narcotics Tax Act |
The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (Ch. 1, 38 Stat. 785) was a United States federal law that regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates. The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York and...
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| x Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act |
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (commonly referred to as RICO Act or RICO) is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing...
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| x Communications Decency Act |
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) was the first notable attempt by the United States Congress to regulate pornographic material on the Internet. In 1997, in the landmark cyberlaw case of Reno v. ACLU, the U.S. Supreme Court partially...
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| x Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act |
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (42 U.S.C. § 1395dd, EMTALA) is a United States Act of Congress passed in 1986 as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. It requires hospitals and ambulance services to...
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| x Sherman Antitrust Act |
The Sherman Antitrust Act (Sherman Act, July 2, 1890, ch. 647, 26 Stat. 209, 15 U.S.C. § 1–7) requires the United States Federal government to investigate and pursue trusts, companies and organizations suspected of violating the Act. It was the...
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| x Children's Online Privacy Protection Act |
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) is a United States federal law, located at 15 U.S.C. § 6501–6506 (Pub.L. 105-277, 112 Stat. 2581-728, enacted October 21, 1998).
The act, effective April 21, 2000, applies to the online...
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| x 1937 Marijuana Tax Act |
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In the United States, the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, Pub. 238, 75th Congress, 50 Stat. 551 (Aug. 2, 1937), was a significant bill on the path that led to the criminalization of cannabis. It was introduced to U.S. Congress by Commissioner of the Federal...
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| x Refugee Act |
The Refugee Act is a 1980 United States federal law that reformed United States immigration law and admitted refugees on systematic basis for humanitarian reasons. A 1985 ceiling of 70,000 refugees, with 270,000 immigrants total and 20,000 from any...
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| x Non-Intercourse Act |
In the last days of President Thomas Jefferson's presidency, the United States Congress replaced the Embargo Act of 1807 with the almost unenforceable Non-Intercourse Act of March 1809. This Act lifted all embargoes on American shipping except for...
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| x Homestead Act |
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The Homestead Act was a United States Federal law that gave an applicant freehold title up to 160 acres (1/4 section) of undeveloped land outside of the original 13 colonies. The new law required three steps: file an application, improve the land,...
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| x Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act |
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The Morrill Land-Grant Acts are United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges, including the Morrill Act of 1862 (7 U.S.C. § 301 et seq.) and the Morrill Act of 1890 (the Agricultural College Act of 1890, (26 Stat. 417,...
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| x National Banking Act |
The National Bank Act (ch. 58, 12 Stat. 665, February 25, 1863) was a United States federal law that established a system of national charters for banks. It encouraged development of a national currency based on bank holdings of U.S. Treasury...
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| x Amnesty Act |
The Amnesty Act of May 22, 1872 was a United States federal law that removed voting restrictions and office-holding disqualification against most of the secessionists who rebelled in the American Civil War, except for some 500 military leaders of...
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| x Specie Payment Resumption Act |
The Specie Payment Resumption Act (January 14, 1875, ch. 15, 18 Stat. 296) provided for the redemption of United States paper currency, known colloquially as greenbacks, in gold beginning in 1879.
Late in 1861, the federal government suspended...
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| x Bland-Allison Act |
The Bland-Allison Act was an 1878 act of Congress requiring the U.S. Treasury to buy a certain amount of silver and put it into circulation as silver dollars. Vetoed by President Rutherford B. Hayes, the Congress overrode Hayes' veto on February 28,...
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| x Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act |
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The Pendleton (investment) Civil Service Reform Act (ch. 27, 22 Stat. 403) of 1883 United States federal law established the United States Civil Service Commission, which placed most federal government employees on the merit system and marked the...
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| x Chinese Exclusion Act |
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The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed into law by President Arthur on May 8, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress...
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| x Sherman Silver Purchase Act |
The Sherman Silver Purchase Act was enacted in July 14, 1890 as a United States federal law. It was named after its author, Senator John Sherman, an Ohio Republican, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. While not authorizing the free and...
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| x Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act |
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The Revenue Act or Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894 (ch. 349, §73, 28 Stat. 570, August 27, 1894) slightly reduced the United States tariff rates from the numbers set in the 1890 McKinley tariff and imposed a 2% income tax. It is named for William L....
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| x Dawes Act |
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The Dawes Act was enacted on February 8, 1887 regarding the distribution of land to Native Americans in Oklahoma. Named after its sponsor, U.S. Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts, the act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by the Burke Act....
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| x Dingley Act |
The Dingley Act of 1897 (ch. 11, 30 Stat. 151, July 24, 1897), introduced by U.S. Representative Nelson Dingley, Jr. of Maine, raised tariffs in United States to counteract the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894, which had lowered rates.
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| x Foraker Act |
The Foraker Act, officially the Organic Act of 1900, is a United States federal law that established civilian (limited popular) government on the island of Puerto Rico, which had been newly acquired by the United States as a result of the Spanish...
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| x Gold Standard Act |
The Gold Standard Act of the United States was passed in 1900 (ratified on March 14) and established gold as the only standard for redeeming paper money, stopping bimetallism (which had allowed silver in exchange for gold). It was signed by...
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| x Newlands Reclamation Act |
The Reclamation Act (also known as the Newlands Reclamation Act or National Reclamation Act) of 1902 (P.L. 57-161, as amended) is a United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 17 states in the American West.
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| x Meat Inspection Act |
The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 (Chapter 3913, 34 Stat. 674), substantially amended by the Wholesome Meat Act 1967 (P.L. 90-201), requires USDA to inspect all cattle, sheep, goats, and horses when slaughtered and processed into products for human...
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| x Pure Food and Drug Act |
The Pure Food and Drug Act of June 30, 1906 is a United States federal law that provided federal inspection of meat products and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated food products and poisonous patent medicines. The Act...
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| x Federal Farm Loan Act |
Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 is a United States federal law that established twelve regional Farm Loan Banks to serve members of Farm Loan Associations. The act was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson.
Under the act, farmers could borrow up...
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| x Railway Labor Act |
The Railway Labor Act is a United States federal law that governs labor relations in the railway and airline industries. The Act, passed in 1926 and amended in 1936 to apply to the airline industry, seeks to substitute bargaining, arbitration and...
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| x Clayton Antitrust Act |
The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, (October 15, 1914, ch. 323, 38 Stat. 730, codified at 15 U.S.C. § 12–27, 29 U.S.C. § 52–53), was enacted in the United States to add further substance to the U.S. antitrust law regime by seeking to prevent...
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| x Federal Trade Commission Act |
The Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 (15 U.S.C §§ 41-58, as amended) established the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), a bipartisan body of five members appointed by the President of the United States for seven year terms. This Commission was...
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| x Federal Reserve Act |
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The Federal Reserve Act (ch. 6, 38 Stat. 251, enacted December 23, 1913, 12 U.S.C. ch.3) is the act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States of America, which was signed into law by...
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| x Mann Act |
The United States White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 (ch. 395, 36 Stat. 825; codified as amended at 18 U.S.C. § 2421–2424) prohibited white slavery. It also banned the interstate transport of females for “immoral purposes.” Its primary stated intent...
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| x Mann-Elkins Act |
The Mann-Elkins Act (61st Congress, ch. 309, 36 Stat. 539, enacted June 18, 1910) was a United States federal law that is among the Progressive reforms. The Act extended the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission to include communications....
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| x Emergency Quota Act |
In the United States, the Emergency Quota Act also know as the Emergency immigration Act of 1921, (ch. 8, 42 Stat. 5, also known as the Johnson Quota Act) of May 19, 1921 was an immigration quota that limited the annual number of immigrants who...
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| x Norris-LaGuardia Act |
The Norris–La Guardia Act (also known as the Anti-Injunction Bill) of 1932 was a United States federal law that made yellow-dog contracts, or those in which a worker agreed as a condition of employment that he would not join a labor union,...
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| x Voting Rights Act |
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The National Voting Rights Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. § 1973–1973aa-6) outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the United States. Echoing the language of the 15th...
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| x National Environmental Protection Act |
The "National Environmental Protection Act of 1969" is mistakenly cited as the origin of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. In fact, no such law exists. A "National Environmental Policy Act" was indeed passed in 1969, but that law...
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| x Trade Expansion Act |
Under the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 (Pub.L. 87-794, 76 Stat. 872, enacted October 11, 1962, 19 U.S.C. § 1801), the United States Congress granted the White House unprecedented authority to negotiate tariff reductions of up to 50%. It paved the way...
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| x Johnson Act |
The Johnson Act of 1934 (Foreign Securities Act, ch. 112, 48 Stat. 574, 18 U.S.C. § 955, 1934-04-13) prohibited foreign nations in default from marketing their bond issues in the United States.
Senator Hiram Johnson sponsored the Act which included...
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| x Tydings-McDuffie Act |
The Tydings-McDuffie Act (officially the Philippine Independence Act; Public Law 73-127) approved on March 24, 1934 was a United States federal law which provided for self-government of the Philippines and for Filipino independence (from the United...
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| x Neutrality Acts |
The Neutrality Acts were laws that were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non...
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| x Robinson-Patman Act |
The Robinson-Patman Act of 1936 (or Anti-Price Discrimination Act, Pub. L. No. 74-692, 49 Stat. 1526 (codified at 15 U.S.C. § 13)) is a United States federal law that prohibits what were considered, at the time of passage, to be anticompetitive...
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| x Wheeler-Lea Act |
The Wheeler-Lea Act of 1938 is a United States federal law that amended the Federal Trade Commission Act to add the clause "unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce are hereby declared unlawful" to the Section 5 prohibition of unfair...
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| x Smith Act |
The Alien Registration Act or Smith Act (18 U.S.C. § 2385) of 1940 is a United States federal statute that makes it a criminal offense for anyone to
It also required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the government; within four months...
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| x Presidential Succession Act |
A Presidential Succession Act (currently 3 U.S.C. § 19) establishes the line of succession to the powers and duties of the office of President of the United States in the event that neither a President or Vice President is able to "discharge the...
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| x Taft-Hartley Act |
The Labor–Management Relations Act, 80 Pub.L. 101; 61 Stat. 136, informally the Taft–Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions. The act, still effective, was sponsored by Senator Robert Taft...
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| x Mutual Security Act |
The Mutual Security Act of 1951 is a United States federal law that distributed $7 billion in foreign aid and thus extended the Marshall Plan.
When the Marshall Plan ended on June 30, 1951, Congress was in the process of piecing together a new...
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| x McCarran Internal Security Act |
The Internal Security Act (a.k.a the Subversive Activities Control Act, McCarran Act or ISA) of 1950 is a United States federal law that required the registration of Communist organizations with the United States Attorney General and established the...
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| x National Defense Education Act |
The National Defense Education Act (NDEA), signed into law on September 2, 1958, provided funding to United States education institutions at all levels. The act authorized funding for four years, increasing funding per year: for example, funding...
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| x Posse Comitatus Act |
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction, with the intention (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) of substantially limiting the powers of the federal...
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| x Airline Deregulation Act |
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The Airline Deregulation Act (Pub.L. 95-504) is a United States federal law signed into law on October 24, 1978. The main purpose of the act was to remove government control over fares, routes and market entry (of new airlines) from commercial...
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| x Taiwan Relations Act |
The Taiwan Relations Act is an act of the United States Congress passed in 1979 after the establishment of relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the breaking of relations between the United States and the Republic of China (ROC) on...
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| x Sarbanes-Oxley Act |
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The Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002 (Pub.L. 107-204, 116 Stat. 745, enacted July 30, 2002), also known as the 'Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act' (in the Senate) and 'Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act...
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| x Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act |
The Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976, Pub. L. 94-210, Feb. 5, 1976, 90 Stat. 31, was a United States federal law that funded the reorganized bankrupt Northeast and Midwest railroads that formed Conrail in 1975; it is best...
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| x Rail Passenger Service Act |
The Rail Passenger Service Act (PL 91-518) of 1970, a United States federal law, created Amtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation of the United States. This organization took over passenger rail service from the private railroads, which...
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| x National Mass Transportation Assistance Act |
The National Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1974 is a United States federal law that extended the Urban Mass Transportation Act to cover operating costs as well as construction costs. This act was the culmination of a major lobbying effort by...
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