American Expansion & Industrialization

  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    several U.S. federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land for free
  • Dawes Act

    Dawes Act

    Authorized the president of the U.S. to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Natives.
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    The first series of significant consumer protection laws that banned foreign and interstated traffic in adulterated or mislabeled food and drug products
  • Federal Reserved Act

    Federal Reserved Act

    A central bank that was created by congress to provide the nation with a safer, stable and flexible monetary and financial system