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46 matches to Conventice Acts
Legislative. Branch of a government that enacts laws.
Marprelate Tracts. 1588-9. Anonymous seditious Puritan pamphlets for which Penry was executed.
Native Land Acts. 1862, 65-92. New Zealand abolishes tribal land ownership, destroying traditional Maori society.
Navigation Acts. 14-19C. Limited trade to England and colonies to British ships.
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.
Preemption Act. 1841-91. US law allowed squatters on government land to buy 160 acres. Homestead.
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.
Reform Bills. England. 1832: Russell redistributes Parliamentary seats, enfranchises renters. 1867: Disraeli enfranchises workers in towns. 1884: Gladstone enfranchises agricultural workers. Representation of People Acts.
Representation of the People Acts. England. 1918 Women over 30 and men over 21 enfranchised. 1928 Women over 21. 1948 Plural voting abolished. 1969 Age of majority reduced to 18. Reform Bills.
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.
Vagrancy Acts. England. 1459 Authorized imprisonment. 1530 whipping. 1535 mutilation. 1597 included entertainers. 1713 branding prohibited.
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions. 1798,9. States protest Alien +Sedition Acts limiting freedoms. Nullification.