passed August 21, 1996.
Sherman Antitrust Act was the first major federal legislation passed to encourage competition in the United States.
The War on Poverty is the unofficial name for legislation was first introduced by U.S. President Lyndon Johnson in 1964. It later pass the Economic Opportunity Act.
I'm pretty sure its called a bill.
The 66th United States Congress passed the Volstead Act October 28, 1919. It was first introduced in the House by Andrew Volstead.
The Bill of Rights which encompasses the First 10 Amendments was passed as legislation and ratified by three fifths of the states on December 15, 1791.
The British North America Act (BNA Act) was the legislation, passed by the British Parliament, which created Canada on July 1, 1867. Canada was the very first country to be created by legislation.
The first time it was presented it was unanimously rejected. Then when it was re-introduced with amendments it wasn't passed unanimously but was passed with enough majority that is required to pass any bill.
The 1970's was the decade where the first important laws were passed to decrease the amount of water pollution.
148 years passed between Europeans first reaching the Americans and sugarcane being introduced in the West Indies. Christopher Columbus came to the Bahamas in 1492. English planted introduces sugarcane in 1640.
Congress passed such legislation in the second half of the 1800s, leading to the destruction of the first KKK.
The representatives of the First Continental Congress gathered to discuss their response to the British "Intolerable Acts." These laws were passed to punish the colonies for the Boston Tea Party.
The National Firearms Act of 1934 was the first comprehensive federal gun control legislation in the United States. It introduced regulations and taxes on the manufacture, sale, and transfer of certain firearms, including machine guns, short-barreled rifles, shotguns, and suppressors.