The Timber Culture Act was a follow-up act to the Homestead Act. The Timber Culture Act was passed by Congress in 1873. The act allowed homesteaders to...

and only white people had the means to make them productive. The Timber Culture Act granted up to 160 acres of land to a homesteader who would plant at...

1891 by President Benjamin Harrison. The Act reversed previous policy initiatives, such as the Timber Culture Act of 1873, which did not preclude land fraud...

The Comstock Act of 1873 is a series of current provisions in Federal law that generally criminalize the involvement of the United States Postal Service...

Wikisource has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Act of 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted 1870)...

Grant's Native American policy was to assimilate Indians into Anglo-American culture. In Grant's foreign policy, the Alabama Claims against Britain were peacefully...

the military nature of the conspiracy and the facts that the defendants acted as enemy combatants and that martial law was in force at the time in the...

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main Republican Party. A sizable minority led by James A. Bayard sought to act independently of the Liberal Republican ticket, but the bulk of the party...

clear constitutional directive, Congress passed the Electoral Commission Act, which established a 15-member commission of eight Republicans and seven...