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The Bennett Law, officially 1889 Wisconsin Act 519, was a controversial state law passed by the Wisconsin Legislature in 1889 dealing with compulsory education. The controversial section of the law was a requirement to utilize the English language as the sole medium of instruction in all schools, whether private or public.
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The United States first organized Wisconsin in 1787 under the Northwest Ordinance after Great Britain yielded the land to them in the Treaty of Paris. It became the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and a U.S. state on May 29, 1848. [4] The 1850s saw an influx of European immigrants. [5]
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List of United States federal legislation; Acts listed by popular name, via Cornell University; United States Statutes at Large. Volumes 1 through 18, 1789–1875, via Library of Congress; Public Laws (PL) Current Congress only, via the U.S. Government Printing Office; 104th Congress through current Congress, via the U.S. Government Printing Office
(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s new laws for the new year are mostly notable because there are so few, and the changes are relatively small. Many states see hundreds of new laws with each ...
The Grange was an organization of farmers that stretched throughout the Midwestern United States and filtered into the Southern United States. Despite the highest proportion of its members being in Kansas and Nebraska, the Grange were most effective in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota, where the Granger laws were eventually passed. [ 1 ]
State law prohibits retail sale of liquor and wine between 9:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m., and beer between midnight and 6:00 a.m. [7] [8] State law allows local municipalities to further restrict retail sales of alcohol, or ban the issuance of retail liquor licenses altogether. [9] Local ordinances often prohibit retail beer sale after 9:00 p.m.