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1Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 — The Act for the Settlement of Ireland imposed penalties including death and land confiscation against participants and bystanders of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 and subsequent unrest. Contents 1 Background 2 Preamble 3 Plantation 3.1 …
2REAL ID Act — of 2005 Full title To establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver s license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism related… …
3Mental Health Act 2007 — The Mental Health Act 2007[1] Parliament of the United Kingdom Long title An Act to amend the Mental Health Act 1983, the …
4Chinese Exclusion Act — This article is about the former U.S. law. For the similar Canadian law, see Chinese Immigration Act of 1923. The first page of the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law signed by Chester A. Arthur on… …
5Riot Act — The Riot Act (1 Geo. 1, c. 5) of 1714 was an act introduced by the Parliament of Great Britain authorising local authorities to declare any group of more than twelve people to be unlawfully assembled, and thus have to disperse or face punitive… …
6Kansas-Nebraska Act — The Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries …
7Chinese Exclusion Act (United States) — The Chinese Exclusion Act was a United States federal law passed on May 6, 1882, following revisions made in 1880 to the Burlingame Treaty of 1868. Those revisions allowed the U.S. to suspend immigration, and Congress subsequently acted quickly… …
8Quartering Act — is the name of at least two acts of the Parliament of Great Britain. Quartering Act of 1765 Lieutenant General Thomas Gage, the commander in Chief of British North American forces, and other British officers who had fought in the French and… …
9Racial Integrity Act of 1924 — On March 20, 1924 the Virginia Legislature (United States) passed two closely related eugenics laws: SB 219, entitled The Racial Integrity Act [Racial Integrity Act of 1924, at Wikisource.org] and SB 281, An ACT to provide for the sexual… …
10Half-caste act — was the common name given to Acts of Parliament passed in Victoria and Western Australia in 1886. They became the model for legislation of Aboriginal communities throughout Australia, such as the Aboriginal Protection and restriction of the sale… …
