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| Navigation Acts (1651) | Laws passed to make sure that England controlled American trade according to the idea of mercantilism. |
| Proclamation of 1763 | British law at end of French and Indian War; said that Americans were not allowed to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains. |
| Sugar Act (1764) | Fees placed on sugar imported into the colonies. |
| Quartering Act (1765) | Required colonists to feed and shelter British troops. |
| Stamp Act (1765) | All official documents had to carry a stamp. |
| Townshend Acts (1767) | Four laws that, among other things, charged new fees on goods imported into the colonies. |
| Tea Act (1773) | Charged a fee on all tea imported into the colonies |
| Intolerable Acts (1774) | Four laws passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party including closing the port of Boston. |
| Land Ordinance (1785) | Organized the Northwest Territory on a grid system. |
| Northwest Ordinance (1787) | Established a government for the Northwest Territory and described rules that a territory would follow in order to become a state. |
| Alien and Sedition Act (1798) | Placed restrictions on immigrants in the country and restricted freedom of speech and freedom of the press. |
| Embargo Act (1807) | Restricted American trade with other countries. |
| Missouri Compromise (1820) | Preserved balance in Congress between slave and free states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state; prohibited slavery north of Missouri. |
| Indian Removal Act (1830) | Indians east of the Mississippi River were to be moved to new lands in the West. |
| Compromise of 1850 | Preserved balance between free and slave states and said that Congress would not regulate slavery in the territories. |
| Fugitive Slave Act (1850) | Fugitive slaves in the North had to be returned to their owners; they could not testify in court or have a trial by jury; and there were heavy penalties for anyone who helped an escaped slave. |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) | Repealed Missouri Compromise and allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether they would allow slavery; this was the new idea of popular sovereignty. |
| Civil Rights Act (1866) | Said that everyone born in the U.S. was a citizen and entitled to equal rights regardless of race. |
| Reconstruction Acts (1867) | Known as Radical Reconstruction; imposed military control of southern states and said that they had to ratify the 14th Amendment and allow former slaves to vote. |
