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#8803, aired 2023-02-08 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $200: 2016's 21st Century Cures Act told this agency to speed up the drug approval process & pay more heed to "patient experience data" the FDA |
#8803, aired 2023-02-08 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $400: Months before the Emancipation Proclamation, which applied to states, came the April 1862 act freeing all those enslaved here the District of Columbia |
#8803, aired 2023-02-08 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $600: Love & marriage changed in Utah after the Edmunds Act of 1882 said anyone "guilty of" this could go to jail for 5 years polygamy |
#8803, aired 2023-02-08 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $1,000 (Daily Double): Talk about landmark legislation--a 1935 act authorized national historic landmarks & this Colonial Va. capital was among the first (Colonial) Williamsburg |
#8803, aired 2023-02-08 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $1000: You can't profit by pretending to have earned military honors under the "Stolen" this brave quality "Act" Valor |
#8631, aired 2022-05-02 | CONGRESS IN THE 19th CENTURY $1600: In 1864 Congress repealed these acts from 1793 & 1850 providing for the seizure & return of those who ran away from bondage the Fugitive Slave Acts |
#8613, aired 2022-04-06 | LANDMARK LEGISLATION $5,000 (Daily Double): Congress passed the first of these acts in 1866; Congress passed another big one in 1964 the Civil Rights Act |
#8428, aired 2021-06-23 | A CATEGORY IN 5 ACTS $400: A 1909 act of Congress describes this symbol as "the letter C inclosed within a circle" a copyright |
#8359, aired 2021-03-18 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $400: An 1849 act authorized the minting of double eagles, $20 coins made of this gold |
#8359, aired 2021-03-18 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $800: Under the 1907 Expatriation Act, American women who married foreigners were stripped of this; the 1922 Cable Act gave it back citizenship |
#8359, aired 2021-03-18 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $1600: An 1856 act allowed Americans to take possession of unoccupied islands with deposits of this, bird droppings valued as fertilizer guano |
#8359, aired 2021-03-18 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $2000: The Alien & this acts were passed in 1798 by a Congress worried about war with France Sedition |
#8359, aired 2021-03-18 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $2,200 (Daily Double): An 1872 act established a park in the territories of Montana & Wyoming "near the headwaters of" this river the Yellowstone |
#8187, aired 2020-03-24 | COLONIAL AMERICA $1200: With the hated "Intolerable Acts" on their minds, the first of these government bodies met in Philadelphia in 1774 the Continental Congress |
#8161, aired 2020-02-17 | ACT OF CONGRESS AKAs $1200: 2001: "an act to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world" the Patriot Act |
#6512, aired 2013-01-01 | OLD YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS $2000: The Kentucky & Virginia resolutions were passed to protest these controversial 1798 acts of Congress the Alien and Sedition Acts |
#6317, aired 2012-02-21 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $200: 1930's Smoot-Hawley Act raised these to protect American farmers tariffs |
#6317, aired 2012-02-21 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $400: (I'm Geoffrey Canada, President of the Harlem Children's Zone.) Setting standards & establishing measurable goals to improve individual outcomes in education was the objective of this 2001 congressional act that left many educators dismayed No Child Left Behind |
#6317, aired 2012-02-21 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $600: This act of 1964 established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission the Civil Rights Act |
#6317, aired 2012-02-21 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $800: This Ohio senator was busy in 1890, with his Silver Purchase Act as well as the more famous antitrust one (John) Sherman |
#6317, aired 2012-02-21 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $3,000 (Daily Double): Britain couldn't afford to pay cash for war materials much longer, so FDR proposed this alliterative act in December 1940 the Lend-Lease Act |
#5630, aired 2009-02-13 | AMERICAN HISTORY $1000: In 1798 Congress passed this collection of bills to control domestic dissent & conspiracy against the federal govt. the Alien & Sedition Acts |
#5242, aired 2007-05-29 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $200: The Freedom Support Act of 1992 allocated about $16 billion to aid the nations formed when this entity collapsed the Soviet Union |
#5242, aired 2007-05-29 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $400: Until a law was passed June 20, 1922, a woman could lose this if she married a foreigner citizenship |
#5242, aired 2007-05-29 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $600: There being no VP, the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 made Joseph Martin, who held this job, first in line to succeed Speaker of the House |
#5242, aired 2007-05-29 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $800: In 1893 the anti-mangling activism of Lorenzo Coffin got Congress to mandate the air type of these on railroad cars brakes |
#5242, aired 2007-05-29 | ACTS OF CONGRESS $1000: An act passed March 3, 1863 established this, the subject of riots in New York that July drafts |
#4138, aired 2002-09-04 | CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS OF CONGRESS $600: Yo ho ho, Congress can "define and punish" these acts "and felonies committed on the high seas" piracy |
#3263, aired 1998-11-11 | THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BEN FRANKLIN $600: One of my last public acts was signing a 1790 petition to Congress urging the abolition of this Slavery |
#1138, aired 1989-07-12 | BEN FRANKLIN $300: One of his last public acts was signing a petition to Congress in favor of abolishing this slavery |
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