One hundred and fifty years ago this month, President Abraham Lincoln launched ... longest nights of his life. The Homestead Act, signed by Lincoln on May 20, 1862, embodied a radical promise ...

As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed that ... In September of 1862, after the Union's victory at Antietam, Lincoln issued a preliminary decree stating that, unless the rebellious states ...

If Abraham Lincoln had the Homestead Act — the 1862 measure that gave 160 acres of public land to almost any American who agreed to steward it — Miami-Dade County has the Homestead Town Center.

The Homestead Act of 1862 was a Civil War-era law signed by President Abraham Lincoln to allow U.S. adult citizens — and ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County ... He kept his promise and issued the Emancipation Proclamation on New Year’s Day in 1863. In the Homestead Act of 1862, Lincoln ...

The Homestead Act of 1862 was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. This act had huge impacts ...

For a guy who grew up in a log cabin, Abraham Lincoln was ... essential for good citizenship. Lincoln built off Jefferson’s ideas in the Homestead Act of 1862 that allowed any adult to claim ...

IDAHO FALLS – Abraham ... “Lincoln won the war in 1862 … with the idea of Idaho.” He cites multiple bills he signed that year ...

Perched at the top of Bascom Hill, Abraham Lincoln overlooks Madison from a granite ... Lincoln’s racism and the Homestead Act and the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 that Lincoln signed into law — ...