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Federal act that provided people with information, especially about soil minerals and plant growth.
Created a series of experimental agricultural stations. |
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| Timber Culture Act of 1873 |
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Gave an additional 160 acres of land to homesteaders if they would plant and cultivate forty acres of trees.
Speculators bought the land and immediately sold it without planting trees. |
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| National Reclamation Act of 1902 |
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Added 1 million acres of irrigated land.
Benefited corporate farms.
Expensive for taxpayers. |
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| *Sioux were going to surrender, 200 Sioux killed, cut down, miscommunication caused chaos, marked the final coquest of Indigenous people in America. *Exactly 400 years after Columbus discovered America. |
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| *Gave land to Indians who separated themselves from their tribes. *Attempt to "civilize" them and break up communal tribe. |
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| *Noted poet and author of children's stories and Indian's rights activist. *Wrote "A Century of Dishonor" 1881 part of Indian's rights Association, and part of Women's nation indian association. |
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| *Wovoka (paiut prophet) had a dream, creator gave him the ghost dance, spread throughout the tribe, whites fear it b/c the thought it was a form of rebellion. |
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| *Placed the spectacular cliffs and giant sequoias under the management of the state of California. *Led to national park system. |
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| National Forest Service 1905 |
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| *Began to help maintain and protect the forests. |
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| *Most famous western artist. *Attended Yale art school. *Caputured vivid scenes of battle in his sketches, painted the most popular historical event: Custard's Last Stand. |
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| *1872- Congress named it the first national park in America. |
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| Forest Management Act 1897 |
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| *Helped government get on track with large scale regulatory activity of forests. |
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| *Land granted to colleges from government for campuses in return for promising agricultural programs. |
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| *Used water cannons to blast hillsides and expose gold depostites. *Drove rock and earth in to rivers. *1860's rivers were clogging and flooding towns and farms. |
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| *Mormons had set up independent state in Utah. 1850 congress thought that the mormons were becoming independent by living there. |
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| *Granted any settler 160 acres to live on and care for for 5 years, had to improve land. *Sparked the largest migration in world history. |
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| Treaty of Gualalupe Hidalgo |
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| *Ended Mexican-American War. *Allowed hispanic people to move freely from Mexico and US. *People would become US citizens and then go back to Mexico. |
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| *Group of lawyers, politicians and land speculators who stole millions of acres of land from the public domian and took 80% of Mexican holdings in New Mexico. |
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| *Tribe that assisted US, 1860 gold discovered in their territory, US want 90% of land, Nez put in oklahoma. |
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| *Largest and most adaptive indians on plains, followed heards of buffalo on horseback, dependent on buffalo, tired to save it from whites. |
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| *Adapted to changing conditions by learning, faught each other to gain control of plains, created constitutional republic and became farmers |
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| *1867- assigned reservations in existing Indian territory to comanches, Plains Appaches, Kiowas, Cheyenenes, and Arrapohoes. Indians competed for survival. |
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| Great Sioux War of 1865-67 |
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| *Miners invading Sioux land. *Sioux faught US government to stalemate, ended with creation of the Great Sioux Reservation |
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| *Defeated, after U.S. army forced indians to surrender one by one in 1877, US took over Black hills and wars ended. |
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| *Chief Black Kettle and his Cheyennes came to sand creek for protection. *105 women and children killed 28 men, sparked indian retalliation. |
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