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2194 matches to Alien and Sedition Acts
Gaspee. British boat burned 1772 by American rebels. Response, Intolerable Acts.
Hatch Acts. 1939,40. Limit campaign contributions in US.
Immigration Acts. 1962. Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth.
Inductive Reasoning. Baconian. Truth is induced from a mass of observed facts.
Intolerable Acts. 1774. British response to Boston Tea Party, Gaspee burning. Closed Boston Harbor. Established military government. Midwest under Quebec rule...Continental Congress.
Legislative. Branch of a government that enacts laws.
Marprelate Tracts. 1588-9. Anonymous seditious Puritan pamphlets for which Penry was executed.
Penry, John. 1559-93. Welsh Puritan executed for Marprelate Tracts.
Place, Francis. 1771-1854. Fought Combination Act, 1822. Advocated birth control, 1827.
Poynings Laws. 1494. Irish Parliament Acts put English Laws in effect.
Quartering Acts. 1765-70,74. Forced Colonies to pay for British troops stationed there. Intolerable Acts. Stamp Act.
Quebec Act. 1774. Britain creates permanent government for Canada. Tolerance for French Canadians a cause of American Revolution. Intolerable Acts.
Reconstruction. 1865-77. Post Civil War US. Military control of south. Civil Rights Act. Carpetbaggers.
Rowlatt Acts. 1919. Suppressed liberties in British India led to Amritsar Riots, Noncooperation Movement.
Shaftesbury, 7th earl. 1801-85. English reform politician. Coal Mines Act 1842. Factory Acts. Sponsored schools, housing for poor.
Six Acts. 1819. Suppressed Radicals after Peterloo.
Suffolk Resolves. 1774. American colonists pledge disobedience to Intolerable Acts. End trade with Britain.
Tractarian Movement. Oxford Movement. 1833- Named after Tracts for the Times. Condemned at Oxford 1841.
Underground Railroad. 1838-65. Northerners help US slaves escape to Canada, defying Fugitive Slave Acts.