As a direct result of the newlands reclamation act was the

Building and managing of irrigation systems.

Explanation:

The Newlands Reclamation Act was an act of 1902 that funded irrigation projects for arid lands of 20 states in the American West. It authorized the federal government to commission water diversion, retention and transmission projects in arid lands.

This encouraged the settlement and irrigation of western arid lands and caused the increase of migration to these regions.

affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts

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