The Homestead Act of 1862 authorized United States Government to encourage the pioneers to provide them land in the West, on the conditions that they (settlers) had to build their own structures and had to live on the land for not less than five years
The Twelfth amendment, ratified in 1804, changed the process so that candidates are elected for president and vice president separately, instead of the vice presidency as the person who came in second in the vote for president.
The idea of active citizenship
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China didn't have anything to do with citizenship, cities like Athens and Sparta had laws about citizenship and what a citizen could do and what a non-citizen could and couldn't do. China didn't have anything like that at the time/\.
