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    The Plantation Act 1740 (referring to colonies) or the Naturalization Act 1740 are common names used for an act of the British Parliament (13 Geo. 2....
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    Congress modeled the Act on the Plantation Act 1740 of the British Parliament (13 Geo. 2 c.7) that was officially titled An Act for Naturalizing such...
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  • Plantation Act may refer to: Plantation Act 1740 (1740), an act of the British Parliament on the American Colonies A Plantation Act (1926), an early sound...
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  • result of intervening religious strife and preference in England the Plantation Act 1740 would set official policy for new immigrants coming to British America...
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  • American Colonies Plantation Act 1740 18th century Naturalization Act 1790 / 1795 / 1798 19th century Naturalization Law 1802 Act to Encourage Immigration...
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    Wikisource has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Act of 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted 1870)...
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    Indian slave trade in the American Southeast Gottlieb Mittelberger Plantation Act 1740 Nationality law in the American Colonies Karl Frederick Geiser, Redemptioners...
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  • largest numbers. Though the Plantation Act imposed stiff fines for non-compliance, the colonies administered the 1740 Act with varying degrees of faithfulness;...
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  • Intents, Constructions and Purposes whatsoever. Another use is in the Plantation Act 1740: [A]ll persons born out of the legience of His Majesty, His Heirs...
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    and Eastern Europe predominated. For the first time, the English Plantation Act 1740 permitted Jews to become British citizens and emigrate to the colonies...
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    serve for two years, with certain conditions and on the model of the Plantation Act 1740.: 197  These earlier engagements were conventional battles on the...
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  • would this allowance be made in the passage of the Plantation Act 1740, but more significantly the act allowed Jews who had or would have resided in British...
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    American Colonies Plantation Act 1740 18th century Naturalization Act 1790 / 1795 / 1798 19th century Naturalization Law 1802 Act to Encourage Immigration...
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    Passport Act of 1920 or Passport Control Act, 1920 was a federal statute authored by the United States 66th Congress. The legislation was an appropriations...
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    the Bubble Schemes (Colonies) Act 1740 (14 Geo. 2. c. 37) to include its colonies, particularly Massachusetts. The act gave the South Sea Company a monopoly...
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    following World War I, these studies led to the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924. Organized labor generally favored restrictions,...
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    The Immigration Act of 1882 was a United States federal law signed by President Chester A. Arthur on August 3, 1882. It imposed a head tax on non-citizens...
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    The Cable Act of 1922 (ch. 411, 42 Stat. 1021, "Married Women's Independent Nationality Act") was a United States federal law that partially reversed...
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  • Cox, Tony (June 22, 2010). "Center For Immigration Studies Wary Of Dream Act". NPR. Retrieved March 7, 2017. Swanson, Ian (May 16, 2014). "GOP's new immigration...
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    Passport Act of 1926, 22 U.S.C § 211, is a United States statue authorizing the issuance of United States passports and visas for a validity of two years...
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    Parliament of Great Britain, which met from 15 November 1739 until 29 April 1740. Gaming Act 1738 (12 Geo. 2. c. 28) Wikisource has original text related to this...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1740. 1740 (MDCCXL) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday...
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    dysentery and mistreatment, four out of every 10 slaves bought by the plantation in 1740 were reported to have died within three years. Initially slaves were...
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    The Scott Act was a United States law that prohibited U.S. resident Chinese laborers from returning to the United States. Its main author was William...
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    the ground for this one); he also at that period spoke against the Plantation Act 1740. The general election of 1754 saw confusion reign in Oxfordshire...
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    Naturalisation Act 1753 to Parliament. Jews and Dissenters in British America had already achieved naturalisation with the Plantation Act 1740 (this was not...
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  • of the plantation. Mulberry Grove was part of the Joseph's Town settlement, and was constructed to be a silk plantation. By 1740, the plantation was experimenting...
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    unique "H" shape which was completed by 1740. The main residence at Tuckahoe plantation is one of the "great plantations" of 18th-century Virginia. The two-story...
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    Large, vol. X (Index), London: Eyre, Straham, Woodfall (1786), "Plantations" para. 115. Treason Act Habeas Corpus Suspension Act (disambiguation) v t e...
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    John Pinney (category 1740 births)
    John Pretor Pinney (1740 – 23 January 1818) was a plantation owner on the island of Nevis in the West Indies and was a sugar merchant in Bristol. He made...
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