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Title:
Homesteading and settling the frontier / Alison Morretta.
Author:
Morretta, Alison, author.
Publication Information:
New York : Cavendish Square Publishing, [2018]
Call Number:
F596 .M6848 2018
Abstract:
The Homestead Act was passed in 1862, when states that had seceded from the Union could no longer block it in congress. The act opened land in the west for all Americans, including freed slaves, granting 160 acres to settlers under the condition that they farm it for five years. The result was that 1.6 million claims, covering 420,000 square miles, were granted, making residents of millions of people in the land west of the Mississippi River.
ISBN:
9781502626417
Series:
Primary sources of westward expansion series
Physical Description:
64 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction: Defining the West -- Opening the frontier -- The journey west -- The life of a homesteader -- Consequences of settlement -- Timeline -- Glossary.
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