The first neutrality act was passed by Congress in August 1935 and imposed a ban on shipments of weapons and war materiel to belligerent countries and discouraged travel by American citizens on the ships of belligerents by specifying that they did so at their own risk.
Answer:
They prevented the U.S. from selling arms to any nation at war.
Explanation:
The Neutrality Laws are a series of laws passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s in response to the growing conflict in Europe and Asia that would eventually lead to World War II. They were generated by the strong isolationist sentiment in the United States that followed their costly participation in World War I and sanctioned to ensure that the US was not again involved in external conflicts, especially in Europe.
The consequences of the Neutrality laws are generally seen as negative: they made no distinction between aggressor and victim, treating both as "belligerents"; and they limited the US government to help Britain against Nazi Germany, until the formal declaration of war in December 1941 made them irrelevant.
The laws established that the president could invoke them if he thought that a war situation existed in a particular case. This provided President Franklin D. Roosevelt with a gap that was carefully exploited to ensure that allied countries were not penalized due to their acts of war.
