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The 1862 to 1863 US Congress and President Lincoln instituted the Homestead Act. This gave huge advantages to settlers to move west. They received their claimed land practically for free if they followed the rules of the Act. It offered tracts of land in sizes as much as 160 acres if a homesteader built a home, stayed at least 5 years and farmed the land.

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