The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the United States Congress of the Confederation on May 20, 1785. It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west
The Romans believed that the person accused in crime is innocent until proven guilty. The Roman laws evolved throughout the ages, from the twelve tablets to the Corpus Juris Civilis ( used by the eastern roman empire in the 500s A.D), The Roman laws was used until the 18th century. It protected the rights of the common people or the plebeians, and it also upheld the responsibility of the state to its people. The Roman laws survived the test of time, after the fall of Rome in the 5th century, the laws itself was still used by the later Germanic Kings in the Medieval Era. It was modified more in the Byzantine empire by Emperor Justinian I. <span />
"Signed into law in May 1862, the Homestead Act opened up settlement in the western United States, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land."
<span>www.history.com/topics/homestead-act It may have affected Indians/Native Americans by pushing them off of their native lands.</span>
