General Allotment Act

Examples of General Allotment Act in the following topics:

• American Indian Policy

  • Congress passed the General Allotment Act, which is considered one of the earliest attempts aimed toward assimilation of native tribes.
  • Under the General Allotment Act, tribal lands were no longer under the control of tribal governments.
  • Allotment did not work because it was not something with which Indians were familiar.
  • The Dawes Act (also called the "General Allotment Act" or "Dawes Severalty Act of 1887") was adopted by Congress in 1887 and authorized the president of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
  • The Dawes Act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by the Burke Act.

• The Dawes Act and Indian Land Allotment

  • The Dawes Act, also called General Allotment Act, or Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
  • The Dawes Act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by the Burke Act.
  • The Dawes Act was named for its sponsor, Senator Henry L.
  • Kidwell, "Allotment," Oklahoma Historical Society Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture].
  • Summarize the effects of the Dawes Act on Native American society

• Agricultural Initiatives and Recovery

  • With lower prices, farmers produced even more of whatever had the highest potential to generate profit.
  • The legislation that aimed to achieve this goal was the 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), one of the New Deal's flagship but also most controversial programs.  
  • The money for the subsidies were to be generated from tax imposed on companies that processed farm products.
  • In the aftermath of this decision, the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 followed.
  • Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (1936): Allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce production in order to conserve soil and prevent erosion.

• "The General Act of the Conference"

• The Civil Rights Acts

  • It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial discrimination in schools, at the workplace, and by facilities that served the general public.
  • Attorney General to join in lawsuits against state governments which operated segregated school systems.
  • The Civil Rights Act was followed by the Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Johnson in 1965.
  • The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B.
  • Compare and contrast the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act

• The Coercive Acts

  • Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773.
  • Many colonists, however, viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of their rights.
  • The first of the acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party was the Boston Port Act.
  • The Massachusetts Government Act provoked even more outrage than the Port Act because it unilaterally altered the government of Massachusetts to bring it under control of the British government.
  • Although many colonists found the Quartering Act objectionable, it generated the least amount of protest of the Coercive Acts.

• British Taxes and Colonial Grievances

  • He allowed customs officers to obtain general writs of assistance, which allowed officers to search random houses for smuggled goods.
  • The Sugar Act of 1764 reduced the taxes imposed by the Molasses Act, but at the same time strengthened the collection of the tax.
  • Following the Quartering Act, Parliament passed one of the most infamous pieces of legislation: the Stamp Act.
  • The act faced vehement opposition throughout the colonies.
  • Parliament repealed the Stamp Act but passed the Declaratory Act in its wake.

• Results of the 1946 Act

  • There is general agreement that money is a key variable in lobbying .
  • The provisions of the act define lobbying in the following manner:
  • The Court upheld the act's constitutionality, but it also narrowed the scope and application of the act.
  • There is general agreement that money is a key variable in lobbying.
  • Summarize the contents of the 1946 Federal Regulation of Lobbying Act and reactions to it

• The PATRIOT and Freedom Acts

  • The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act (USA PATRIOT Act), also commonly known as the Patriot Act, is an Act of the U.S.
  • The act also expanded the definition of terrorism to include domestic terrorism, thus enlarging the number of activities to which the USA PATRIOT Act's expanded law enforcement powers can be applied.
  • These included the Protecting the Rights of Individuals Act, the Benjamin Franklin True Patriot Act, and the Security and Freedom Ensured Act (SAFE), none of which passed.
  • The USA PATRIOT Act has generated a great deal of controversy since its enactment.
  • The USA FREEDOM Act ("Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection and Online Monitoring Act"), more commonly known as the Freedom Act, is a U.S. law that was enacted on June 2, 2015, the day after the PATRIOT Act expired.

• The Acts of Parliament

  • Lieutenant-General Thomas Gage, commander-in-chief of forces in British North America, and other British officers who fought in the French and Indian War, were finding it hard to persuade colonial assemblies to pay for the quartering and provisioning of troops on the march.
  • Following the expiration of an act that provided British regulars with quartering in New York, Parliament passed the Quartering Act of 1765, which went far beyond what Gage had requested.
  • An amendment to the original Quartering Act was passed on June 2, 1774.
  • This act was passed and enforced along with many others, known by the colonists as the "Intolerable Acts."  
  • This act expired on March 24, 1776.