RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS
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The completion of the transcontinental railroad provided easy transportation for homesteaders
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Slavery would spread to the western territories
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Farms tripled in the United States because homesteaders were offered free land
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Immigrants were driven from the United States because they were not illegible for free land.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Passed on May 20, 1862, the Homestead Act accelerated the settlement of the western territory by granting adult heads of families 160 acres of surveyed public land for a minimal filing fee and five years of continuous residence on that land.
Detailed explanation-2: -To help develop the American West and spur economic growth, Congress passed the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. The act distributed millions of acres of western land to individual settlers.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Dawes Act and Homesteading This allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands further. Only those families who accepted an allotment of land could become US citizens. The Dawes Act designated 160 acres of farmland or 320 acres of grazing land to the head of each Native American family.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Homestead Act encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land. In exchange, homesteaders paid a small filing fee and were required to complete five years of continuous residence before receiving ownership of the land.
Detailed explanation-5: -Each homesteader had to live on the land, build a home, make improvements and farm to get the land. The patent they received represented the culmination of hard work and determination. Nearly four million homesteaders settled land across 30 states over 123 years.