homestead

and absentee landowners? Homestead Act allowed individuals to settle and improve a fixed amount of land; once they had claimed and improved it for a pithy fee they could own it. That clearly went against free market principals and distorted the market. The government could have raised the same...

lincoln Repub. party)? So - what republican ideology did the homestead act belong with [i am talking of the republican party that belonged to Abe Lincoln, etc.] ~ Would it be that speculators getting large chunks of land?? thnx!

lincoln Repub. party)? So - what republican ideology did the homestead act belong with [i am talking of the republican party that belonged to Abe Lincoln, etc.] ~ Would it be that speculators getting large chunks of land?? thnx!