History of the United States II / Unit 2 USH2 0165 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Newlands Act
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The idea
The Newlands Reclamation Act of nineteen oh two used money from public land sales to build irrigation dams in the arid West.
In practice
Federal dams storing river water for farms that rainfall alone could not sustain.
Where people slip
The anchor calls it the first systematic approach to water management on the Plains. Water, not land, was the West's scarce resource.
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