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Terms in this set (17)

Caminetti Act
1893 act giving the state the power to regulate the mines
Edmunds Act
1882 act that effectively disenfranchised those who believed in and practiced polygamy and threatened them with fines and imprisonment
Edmunds Tucker Act
1887 act which destroyed temporal power of the mormon church by confiscating all assets over $50.000 and establishing a federal commiussion to oversee all elections in Utah
Hispanic American Alliance
Organization formed to protect and fight for the rights of Spanish Americans
Homstead Act of 1862
granted a quarter section of the public domain free to any settler who lived on the land for at least 5 years and improved it
Morrill Act of 1862
Act by which "land grant" colleges acquired space for campuses in return for promising to institute agricultural programs
Timber Culture Act
1873 Act which alloted homseteaders an additional 160 acres of land in return for planting and cultivating 40 acres of trees
National Reclamation Act
1902 act which added 1 million acres of irrigated land to the US
General Land Revision Act of 1891
Act which gave the President power to establish forest resrves and protect watersheds against threats posed by lumbering, overgrazing and forest fires
Forest Managment Act
1897 act which along with the national recreation act, set the federal government on the path of large scale regulatory activities
Omaha Act
Act which allowed the establishment of individual tribal lands
Sand Creek Massacre
The near annhilation of Black Kettle's Cheyenne band by Colorodo Tropps under Colonel Chivington's orders to kill and scalp all
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Treaty acknowkedging Us defeat in Great Sioux War in 1868
Dawes Severalty Act
1887 law terminating tribal ownership of land and alloting some parcels of land to individual indians with the remainder opened to white settlement
Gospel of Wealth
Thesis that hard work and perserverence lead to wealth, implying that poverty is a character flaw
American Federation of Workers
Union formed in 1886 that organized skilled workers along craft lines and emphasized a few workplace issues rather than a broad social program
Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
1883 law that reformed the spolis system by prohibiting government workers from making political contributions and creating the civil service commision to voersee their appointment on the basis of merit rather than politics
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