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    Homesteading: Settling America’s Heartland

    Homesteading: Settling America’s Heartland
    Books / Home page featured boxes 2 July 2, 2020 July 2, 2020

    Congress passed the Homestead Act in 1862, and President Abraham Lincoln signed it. Homesteaders had to build their home and plow at least 20 acres for crops to “prove up” the claim to get full ownership of the property. Then even the poor could own land if they worked hard enough.

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