It probably cannot be known with any certainty, but since the first settlers arrived and settled in both present day Massechussetts and Virginia, it can be safely assumed that they brought the "rule of law" with them in their society and abided by those laws even before the US become a nation.
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The Compromise of 1850
Local and state laws that were passed to take away African-American rights, in the South, were referred to as Jim Crow laws. There were dozens of these laws passed in the 1950s and 1960s.
The first Adoption of Children Act was passed in the US state of Massachusetts in 1851. The Education for All Handicapped Children Act was passed the Senate in June 18, 1975.
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, Illinois and Maryland were among the first states to do so. The movement started in Britain during the Industrial Revolution.
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