What was the main goal of the national reclamation act of 1902?
a. to manage water resources in the west and southwest
b. to convince people to think a certain way
c. to make laws and policies
d. to establish the need for political parties and government

As initially promulgated by Congress, the Reclamation Act encouraged western settlement by selling federal lands to individual farmers and then supplying them with inexpensive water, for which the farmers would repay the government

well it definitly does because if you are seen as weak you will be seen as unimportant and they will walk all over you and the us is the most powerful military and the largest in the world

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