Laws and Amendments

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  1. 3. Established the framework of one of the most controversial branches of government during the ratification of the constitution.
  2. 5. The act authorized the construction of six frigates at a total cost of $688,888.82. These ships were the first ships of what eventually became the present-day United States Navy.
  3. 6. notable as the first tariff passed by Congress with an explicit function of protecting U.S. manufactured items from overseas competition
  4. 7. first national park created.
  5. 8. An act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain ____.
  6. 10. was in responds to the post office act of 1872 because of the illegal activity the post office was inversely supporting.
  7. 13. Established and clarified that paper money was real.
  8. 15. established land grant universities.
  9. 16. passed to spite the Mormons in Utah.
  10. 17. Act passed by the United States Congress during the American Civil War to provide fresh manpower for the Union Army
  11. 18. An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
  12. 20. 28th US Congress passed "An act to establish a uniform time for holding elections for electors of President and Vice President in all the States of the Union." The act selected "the Tuesday after the first Monday in November" as the day on which all states must appoint electors.
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  1. 1. An Act repealing, after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid upon Distilled Spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead; and also upon Spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same.
  2. 2. directed that a corps of engineers be established and "stationed at West Point in the state of New York, and shall constitute a Military Academy" whose primary function was to train expert engineers loyal to the United States and alleviate the need to employ them from foreign countries.
  3. 4. Established for the first time who could be considered a citizen of the U.S.A beyond the state level.
  4. 9. created the United States dollar as the country's standard unit of money, established the United States Mint, and regulated the coinage of the United States.
  5. 11. Answered the question of what/how do people who break the law get punished.
  6. 12. some argue this is the first Federal individual mandate levied on individuals for health insurance,[2] preceding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"), passed in early 2010, by nearly 212 years; An Act for the relief of sick and disabled _____.
  7. 14. An act to revise the judiciary of Utah and those entrusted to enforce U.S. laws in Utah.
  8. 19. An Act to promote the progress of useful Arts.