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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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)...
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    clear constitutional directive, Congress passed the Electoral Commission Act, which established a 15-member commission of eight Republicans and seven...
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    reconstructed Southern states, in accordance with the First Reconstruction Act. Incumbent president Andrew Johnson had succeeded to the presidency in 1865...
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    Address 1873 Panic of 1873 Colfax massacre Timber Culture Act Slaughter-House Cases Virginius Affair Coinage Act of 1873 Long Depression Comstock laws 1873...
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    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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    responsibilities of the office." Congress would eventually enact the Electoral Count Act in 1887 to provide more detailed rules for the counting of electoral votes...
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