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The intent of the Homestead Act of 1862 [24] [25] was to reduce the cost of homesteading under the Preemption Act; after the South seceded and their delegates left Congress in 1861, the Republicans and supporters from the upper South passed a homestead act signed by Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, which went into effect on Jan. 1st, 1863.
Sod and Stubble: The Story of a Kansas Homestead (U of Nebraska Press, 1972) La Forte, Robert Sherman. Leaders of Reform: Progressive Republicans in Kansas, 1900-1916 (1974) online; Lee, R. Alton. Sunflower Justice: A New History of the Kansas Supreme Court (U of Nebraska Press, 2014) Luebke, Frederick C., ed. Ethnicity on the Great Plains (1982)
There are signs it is beginning to work. ... The idea stretches back to the Homestead Act of 1862: Spur economic growth in rural America by giving away free land to those who will make good use of ...
Thus, the black homesteader movement foreshadowed the Great Migration of the mid-twentieth century during which 6 million blacks fled the South to work in northern or western states. In addition to the attraction of free land and the opportunities provided by land ownership, black homesteaders “also had in their consciousness the bitter agony ...
African Americans in the United States have a unique history of homesteading, in part due to historical discrimination and legacies of enslavement. Black American communities were negatively impacted by the Homestead Act's implementation , which was designed to give land to those who had been enslaved and other underprivileged groups.
The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was a United States federal law intended to offer land to prospective farmers, white and black, in the South following the American Civil War. It was repealed in 1876 after mostly benefiting white recipients.
The most successful of the Exodusters were those who moved to urban centers and found work as domestic or trade workers. [19] Almost all of the Exodusters who attempted to homestead in the countryside settled in the Kansas uplands, which presented the most formidable obstacles to small-scale farmers. [20]
McNulty was born in Canada on March 3, 1841. From the age of fourteen, he farmed and worked as a blacksmith. He was the first person to settle in Rooks County, homesteading the first piece of land there (Section 13, T. 7, R. 18) under the Homestead Act in June, 1871, and he was an incorporator of that county's first town site of Stocktown township.