One of the promises that America declared was for the opportunity to own land as part of the American Dream. The opportunity to move west and take part in the Homestead Act created an opportunity to own land not rent or lease from another, as well as the opportunity to have space from others as the eastern coast had become heavily populated with Immigration.
They wanted people to move west and settle.
The West
Homestead act, which was signed by lincoln, was made to encourage people to move west. Government would give people who were willing to move out in the west land, in exchange for a small fee and a requirement of living on that land for five years before it officially became theirs
Homestead Act
Land did encourage them, but it wasn't free, they were selling it to raise money for the Civil war.
How did the homestead act encourage freed African Americans to move to the great Plains
They wanted people to move west and settle.
Homestead Act.
The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged Americans to move out west because it offered 160 acres of undeveloped land in the west to all American citizens FOR FREE.It was first comes first serve so people rushed over to get the free land before it was all gone.
It encouraged settlers to move west at little expense
People who applied for it and went west to homestead.
the homestead act
encouraged surplus labor in the Eastern states to move west
Few settlers wanted to move West at the time.
Few settlers wanted to move West at the time.
The western frontier. 160 acres was given to anyone willing to move west
The government gave away land in the West to settlers willing to homestead there. The homestead was abandoned by the owners after the drought.