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Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 29, 1936 The Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act Pub. L. 74–461 , enacted February 29, 1936) is a United States federal law that allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce production so as to conserve soil and prevent erosion.
Burke Act; Other short titles: General Allotment Act Amendment of 1906: Long title: An Act to amend section six of an act approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and ...
The Indian Allotment Act had disastrous effects on the Native Americans. During the Allotment Act, the Native American population reached its lowest point in history. in 1900, the Native American population in the United States was only 250,000. [9] There was also a substantial decrease in the amount of land owned by Native Americans.
Before private property could be dispensed, the government had to determine which Indians were eligible for allotments, which propelled an official search for a federal definition of "Indian-ness". [4] Although the act was passed in 1887, the federal government implemented the Dawes Act on a tribe-by-tribe basis thereafter.
Allotment may refer to: Allotment (Dawes Act), an area of land held by the US Government for the benefit of an individual Native American, under the Dawes Act of 1887; Allotment (finance), a method by which a company allocates over-subscribed shares; Allotment (gardening), an area of land rented out for non-commercial gardening or farming
The Curtis Act of 1898 was an amendment to the United States Dawes Act; it resulted in the break-up of tribal governments and communal lands in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian Territory: the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, and Seminole.
This is an article about the "Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938". For the act by the same name in 1933, see Agricultural Adjustment Act.. The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 (Pub. L. 75–430, 52 Stat. 31, enacted February 16, 1938) was legislation in the United States that was enacted as an alternative and replacement for the farm subsidy policies, in previous New Deal farm legislation ...
Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 28, 1934 The Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 ( TGA , Pub. L. 73–482 ) is a United States federal law that provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands (excluding Alaska ) to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use.