A little-known politician from Illinois, Abraham Lincoln had opposed admitting Texas ... On Lincoln’s watch, the Homestead Act passed in 1862. Again, the refrain of real estate shows up. The pioneer ...

There are 225 days left in the year. Today in history: On May 20, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, which was intended to encourage settlements west of the Mississippi River by ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — In 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act, which led to the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, slicing travel time across the continent ...

No. 1616 pays tribute to America’s 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, who signed the Pacific Railway Act in 1862, creating UP and authorizing construction of the transcontinental railroad. 2025 marks ...

Abraham Lincoln ... and supreme court judges. Lincoln’s presidency shaped Nebraska in other ways. In 1862 Congress passed and the president signed the Homestead, Pacific Railroad and Land ...

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.

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 ...

WASHINGTON - Abraham Lincoln. No title. No showy script. Just the name. These are the final two words penned on the final corner of four pages of parchment that make up the Homestead Act of 1862.

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

The Revenue Act of 1862 was an ... 1861 and the first half of 1862, it had become clear that the war would last longer—and cost more—than President Abraham Lincoln had originally hoped.