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What law was passed for the purpose of populating the us west with farmers?
Homestead act.
What type of government did the US have during The Homestead Act?
what type of gorvernment did the US have during the Homestead Act?
Similarities and differences of the homestead act and the dawes act?
The homestead act allow applicant to not hold land of up to 160 acres while the Dawes act was away for some Indians to be US citizens.
Is the 'Indian Removal Act' still an active law?
The Indian Removal Act has not been repealed and is still an active law, most of the provisions of that law are not enforced however. The only parts of that law that are still enforced is that non-US Citizen 'Indians' are not allowed off reservations, or allowed to exist if they do not have a reservation.
Settlers in the US heading West after 1862 would most likely have supported passage of the?
Homestead Act
In 1862 congress passed a law allowing any us citizen to claim 160 acres in the west what was this act called?
The homestead act!
What law was passed for the purpose of populating the us west with farmers?
Homestead act.
What type of government did the US have during The Homestead Act?
what type of gorvernment did the US have during the Homestead Act?
Which of the following helped African Americans and the others move to the western US?
The Homestead Act of 1862.
Similarities and differences of the homestead act and the dawes act?
The homestead act allow applicant to not hold land of up to 160 acres while the Dawes act was away for some Indians to be US citizens.
Where did the US get the land it offered people through the Homestead Act?
the native americans
How did the homestead act and transcontinental railroad help the US fulfill there commitment?
manifest destiny
Is the 'Indian Removal Act' still an active law?
The Indian Removal Act has not been repealed and is still an active law, most of the provisions of that law are not enforced however. The only parts of that law that are still enforced is that non-US Citizen 'Indians' are not allowed off reservations, or allowed to exist if they do not have a reservation.
What method was set up so the US would expand in an orderly fashion?
Homestead Act
Why did the Homestead Act help the reelection of US President Lincoln in 1864?
The Homestead Act was a popular program signed into law by US President Abraham Lincoln. For only $12, people who wanted to settle out west could have 160 acres of land if they promised to remain there and work the land. It was not a real factor in Lincoln'd reelection, but it added to him ,more votes over Democrat George B. McClellan in the 1864 presidential election.
Labor groups in the US supported the Homestead Act of 1862 because this act?
encouraged surplus labor in the Eastern states to move west
Settlers in the US heading West after 1862 would most likely have supported passage of the?
Homestead Act
