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APUSH Chapter 18 Out of Many 2
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History
11th Grade
12/19/2005

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Hydraulic Mining
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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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Utah Territory
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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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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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Santa Fe Ring
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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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Homestead Act 1862
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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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Morill Act of 1862
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Land granted to colleges from government for campuses in return for promising agricultural programs.
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Hatch Act 1887
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created some experimental agricultural situations that passed on info about soil, minerals and plant growth.
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