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In the 1830s, Eastern industrialists swayed Congress against homesteading. They were afraid of losing their laborers who worked for low wages. Their workers lived in crowded tenement housing owned by the industrialists, and they had no chance of upward mobility in their work. Therefore, the homestead legation stalled because of the wealthy business owners. In the 1840s, during the Irish famine, the immigrants from Ireland flooded the labor markets in the eastern United States. There was an overabundance of workers, and the opposition to the Homestead Act eased. Additionally, western expansion territories required eastern products and the capitalist of the east realized there was opportunity in westward migration.
Lincoln was president when the Homestead Act was approved by congress in 1862. The passage of the act provided incentives for immigrants and those already living in the eastern half of the U.S. a reason to move west. The act gave pioneers something to work towards and dream about.
It allowed any adult, U.S. citizen (or anyone intending to become a U.S. citizen) who was the head of their household, to claim 160 acres of land. Once land was claimed, the settler had five years to meet the requirements to receive ownership of the property through a real estate deed. The distribution of government owned land had been a popular issue in America since the Land Ordinance of 1785. The Homestead Act of 1862 also increased the population of the United States as immigrants could also make claim to property.
What is one major positive of The Homestead Act?
It allowed any adult who was the head of their household to claim 160 acres of land.
It increased the population of the United States.
It eased the Irish famine by providing with supplies.
It provided people with overabundance of workers.
In the 1830s, Eastern industrialists swayed Congress against homesteading. They were afraid of losing their laborers who worked for low wages. Their workers lived in crowded tenement housing owned by the industrialists, and they had no chance of upward mobility in their work. Therefore, the homestead legation stalled because of the wealthy business owners. In the 1840s, during the Irish famine, the immigrants from Ireland flooded the labor markets in the eastern United States. There was an overabundance of workers, and the opposition to the Homestead Act eased. Additionally, western expansion territories required eastern products and the capitalist of the east realized there was opportunity in westward migration.
Lincoln was president when the Homestead Act was approved by congress in 1862. The passage of the act provided incentives for immigrants and those already living in the eastern half of the U.S. a reason to move west. The act gave pioneers something to work towards and dream about.
It allowed any adult, U.S. citizen (or anyone intending to become a U.S. citizen) who was the head of their household, to claim 160 acres of land. Once land was claimed, the settler had five years to meet the requirements to receive ownership of the property through a real estate deed. The distribution of government owned land had been a popular issue in America since the Land Ordinance of 1785. The Homestead Act of 1862 also increased the population of the United States as immigrants could also make claim to property.
What is one major positive of The Homestead Act?
It allowed any adult who was the head of their household to claim 160 acres of land.
It increased the population of the United States.
It eased the Irish famine by providing with supplies.
It provided people with overabundance of workers.
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One major positive of The Homestead Act is that it allowed any adult who was the head of their household to claim 160 acres of land.