Mutiny Act

(noun)

An annual law by the Parliament of England, originally passed in 1689, that made desertion and sedition of English officers and soldiers punishable crimes.

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Examples of Mutiny Act in the following topics:

  • The Acts of Parliament

    • They were amendments to the Mutiny Act, which had to be renewed annually by Parliament.
    • This first Quartering Act was given royal assent in March of 1765 and provided that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses, as by the Mutiny Act of 1765.
    • An amendment to the original Quartering Act was passed on June 2, 1774.
    • This act was passed and enforced along with many others, known by the colonists as the "Intolerable Acts."  
    • This act expired on March 24, 1776.
  • African Americans in WWII

    • A month later, unsafe conditions inspired hundreds of servicemen to refuse to load munitions, an act known as the Port Chicago Mutiny.
    • Fifty men—called the "Port Chicago 50"—were convicted of mutiny and sentenced to long prison terms.
  • Civil Liberties in Wartime

    • Congress used the Espionage and Sedition Acts to stamp out war opposition by curbing civil liberties.
    • The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 temporarily trumped Americans' rights to religious freedom and to freely speak, publish, or petition the government.
    • This wide characterization of crimes included activities such as inciting insubordination, disloyalty or mutiny, refusal to serve in the armed forces, or interfering with military recruitment operations.
    • Enhancing federal authority under the Espionage Act, followed by the Sedition Act, was therefore necessary to prevent mobs from doing what the government could not.
    • Supreme Court upheld the Espionage and Sedition Acts in the 1919 case, Abrams v.
  • The Sixth Amendment

    • Scene during Court Martial of 64 members of the 24th Infantry United States of America on trial for mutiny and murder of 17 people at Houston, Texas August 23, 1917.
  • The American Military Forces

    • Two major mutinies late in the war drastically diminished the reliability of two of the main units, and officers were faced with constant discipline problems.
    • Popular support for the war was at an all-time low, and Washington had to put down mutinies both in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Lines.
  • Conclusion: The Legacy of WWI

    • Pressured by the Preparedness Movement, Congress passed the National Defense Act of 1916, authorizing an enormous increase in the size of the military.
    • The Selective Service Act, or Selective Draft Act, enacted May 18, 1917, authorized the government to raise a national army through conscription for American entry into World War I.
    • The Espionage Act of 1917 made it a crime to pass information with the intent of harming the success of American armed forces.
    • This wide characterization of crimes included activities such as inciting insubordination, disloyalty or mutiny, refusal to serve in the armed forces, or interfering with military recruitment operations.
    • Congress repealed the Sedition Act on December 13, 1920, although those convicted under the law continued to serve their prison terms.
  • Military Segregation

    • A mutiny by soldiers at Camp Logan near Houston in 1917 was precipitated directly by segregation.
  • The Bolsheviks

    • The February Revolution took place in the context of heavy military setbacks during the First World War (1914–18), which left much of the Russian army in a state of mutiny.
    • During this chaotic period there were frequent mutinies, protests, and many strikes.
  • The Death Penality

    • In militaries around the world courts, martial have imposed death sentences for offenses, such as cowardice, desertion, insubordination, and mutiny.
  • Conclusion: Cultural Change in the Interwar Period

    • Constitution banning alcohol was implemented through the Volstead Act, which went into effect on January 17, 1920.
    • Charlie Chaplin, The Marx Brothers, Walt Disney, Joan Crawford, Mae West, Jimmy Stewart, Errol Flynn, and Clark Gable were only a few of the film legends of the time, while some of the films of the period became instant classics, from Escapist works such as King Kong (1933) and The Wizard of Oz (1939) to romances and drams including Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and Gone With the Wind (1939). 
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