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Acts
Important Acts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Navigation Acts | laws passed to insure mercantilism |
| Sugar Act | tax of sugar |
| Quartering Act | colonist must feed and shelter British troops |
| Tea act | law that allowed tea merchants to sell directly to the colonist |
| Intolerable Act | laws designed to punish Boston for the Tea Party |
| Nonintercourse Act | Americans could trade with all nations except Britain and France |
| Embargo Act | ban on all foreign trade |
| Alien Act | president could expel foreigners, made it harder to become a citizen |
| Sedition Act | citizens could be fined of jailed for criticizing a government or its officials |
| Stamp Act | tax on legal documents, newspapers, almanacs, cards, dice |
| Homestead Act | allowed applicants to claim federal land at little to no cost. |
| Dawes Act | adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians |
| Morrill Act | an act of Congress (1862) granting each state 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of land for each member it had in Congress, 90 percent of the gross proceeds of which were to be used for the endowment and maintenance of colleges and universities teaching agri |