RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD
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Question
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Homestead Act
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Dawes Act
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Morrill Act
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -On February 4, 1887, both the Senate and House passed the Interstate Commerce Act, which applied the Constitution’s “Commerce Clause”-granting Congress the power “to Regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”-to regulating railroad rates.
Detailed explanation-2: -The objective of the Dawes Act was to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society by annihilating their cultural and social traditions. As a result of the Dawes Act, over ninety million acres of tribal land were stripped from Native Americans and sold to non-natives.
Detailed explanation-3: -Instead, the Dawes Act gave the president the power to divide Indian reservations into individual, privately owned plots. The act dictated that men with families would receive 160 acres, single adult men were given 80 acres, and boys received 40 acres. Women received no land.