So how did Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans of his era ... Lincoln historian Harold Holzer told Salon about the 1862 Homestead Act during an interview last year. "It meant encouraging farming ...

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 ...

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 passed by Congress and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. This act had huge impacts ...

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 ...