A history question.

Note: In 1862, at the height of the US Civil War, Abraham Lincoln took advantage of the absence of the slave-owning southern states to sign into law the Homestead Act of 1862. This revolutionary act opened up huge amounts of land in the American Great Plains to private settlement. As a result of this act, 270 million acres of land were claimed and settled. Under the act, if someone was either the head of a household or at least 21 years of age, they could claim a 160 acre parcel of land. Once claiming the land, the homesteaders had the responsibility of building a home and farming the land for 5 years before they could “prove up,” or take the land officially.

Homestead Act 1862 (Excerpts)

AN ACT to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain. Be it enacted, That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such, as required by the naturalization laws of the United States, and who has never borne arms against the United States Government or given aid and comfort to its enemies, shall, from and after the first of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, be entitled to enter one quarter-section or a less quantity of unappropriated public lands, upon which said person may have filed a preemption claim….Provided, that any person owning or residing on land may, under the provision of the act, enter other land lying contiguous to his or her said land, which shall not, with the land already owned and occupied, exceed in the aggregate one hundred and sixty acres.

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A history question.

Note: In 1862, at the height of the US Civil War, Abraham Lincoln took advantage of the absence of the slave-owning southern states to sign into law the Homestead Act of 1862. This revolutionary act opened up huge amounts of land in the American Great Plains to private settlement. As a result of this act, 270 million acres of land were claimed and settled. Under the act, if someone was either the head of a household or at least 21 years of age, they could claim a 160 acre parcel of land. Once claiming the land, the homesteaders had the responsibility of building a home and farming the land for 5 years before they could “prove up,” or take the land officially.

Homestead Act 1862 (Excerpts)

AN ACT to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain. Be it enacted, That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such, as required by the naturalization laws of the United States, and who has never borne arms against the United States Government or given aid and comfort to its enemies, shall, from and after the first of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, be entitled to enter one quarter-section or a less quantity of unappropriated public lands, upon which said person may have filed a preemption claim….Provided, that any person owning or residing on land may, under the provision of the act, enter other land lying contiguous to his or her said land, which shall not, with the land already owned and occupied, exceed in the aggregate one hundred and sixty acres.

Hoodmemes · Answer

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CocoCammron · Answer

Ok, what is the first question you see on there

Hoodmemes · Answer

@boredfr

boredfr · Answer

Did you get the answer you are looking for yet?

boredfr · Answer

$\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}$ @boredfr
Did you get the answer you are looking for yet?
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@Hoodmemes

Hoodmemes · Answer

Oh yes I finished the home work a hour or two ago,thanks anyway

boredfr · Answer

$\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}$ @Hoodmemes
Oh yes I finished the home work a hour or two ago,thanks anyway
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Damn I am soooo sorry. Next time dm me a reminder and I will get back to you

Hoodmemes · Answer

ok

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