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(Encyclopedia) Silver Purchase Act: see Sherman Silver Purchase Act. ...

(Encyclopedia) Presidential Records Act: see under Freedom of Information Act. ...

(Encyclopedia) Carlisle Indian School, in Carlisle, Pa., the first federally supported school for Native Americans to be established off a reservation; it was founded in 1879 by Richard Henry Pratt. Its football tea...

(Encyclopedia) Labor Relations Act: see National Labor Relations Board; Taft-Hartley Labor Act. ...

(Encyclopedia) American Indian languages: see Native American languages. ...

(Encyclopedia) Great Indian Desert, S Asia: see Thar Desert. ...

(Encyclopedia) Taft-Hartley Labor Act, 1947, passed by the U.S. Congress, officially known as the Labor-Management Relations Act. Sponsored by Senator Robert Alphonso Taft and Representative Fred Allan Hartley, the ...

(Encyclopedia) Settlement, Act of, 1701, passed by the English Parliament, to provide that if William III and Princess Anne (later Queen Anne) should die without heirs, the succession to the throne should pass to So...

(Encyclopedia) British North America Act, law passed by the British Parliament in 1867 that provided for the unification of the Canadian provinces into the dominion of Canada. Until 1982 the act also functioned as t...

(Encyclopedia) Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act, officially the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, U.S. budget deficit reduction measure. The law provided for automatic spending cuts to take effect ...