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Hatch Act of 1887
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hatch Act of 1887 | An act to establish agricultural experiment stations in connection with the colleges established in the several States. Gave federal money to state colleges to create agricultural research stations. |
| Holding Company | A holding company is a corporation that owns sufficient voting stock in another corporation to control its policies and management. Holding companies are regulated by various laws, including the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company A |
| Homestead Act of 1862 | which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. The act distributed millions of acres of western land to individual settlers. |
| Immigration Act of 1882 | The Immigration Act of 1882 marked a significant turning point in U.S. immigration policy, as it was the first comprehensive federal law governing immigration. However, rising tensions regarding immigrant groups, particularly Chinese laborers, prompted Co |
| Immigration Restriction League | to press for laws to check the burgeoning influxes which now originated in greater proportion from eastern and southern Europe. claimed authority from Social Darwinist beliefs and the “science” of eugenics to advocate a literacy test as a measures to kee |
| Incorporation of US Steel | The formal incorporation of the United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel) on February 26, 1901, marked a significant milestone in American industrial history.U.S. Steel emerged as the world's first billion-dollar corporation, initially controlling near |
| Johnson Circular No. 15 (1865) | The order redistributed the roughly 400,000 acres of land to newly freed Black families in forty-acre segments. which confiscated as Union property a strip of coastline stretching from Charleston, South Carolina, to the St. John’s River in Florida, includ |
| Johnson Amnesty Proclamations (1865/1868) | President Johnson issued a proclamation granting amnesty to all persons who have directly or indirectly taken part in the rebellion, with the restoration of all rights of property except as to slaves, and except in cases where legal proceedings have been |
| Johnson Impeachment | Violating the Tenure of Office Act The House formally adopted the 11 articles in early March 1868. Following an 11-week trial in the U.S. Senate, the Senate voted on May 16 and May 26, 1868, falling one vote short of the required two-thirds majority to c |
| Kinetoscope | forerunner of the motion-picture film projector, invented by Thomas A. Edison and William Dickson of the United States in 1891. The result was a lifelike representation of persons and objects in motion. |