The Homestead Act was enacted to help reduce poverty and reward persons who did fight on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War while furthering western expansion.
It was open to any citizen or person wanting to become a citizen that did not fight against the government in the war.
For this act, gender did not matter as long as the person was head of a household or at least 21 years old.
They had to reside on the property for 5 years while improving it, such as clearing it, farming it and putting a proper home on it. They would receive the title at that time once they paid a registration fee. Another way for them to receive the title faster was if they lived on it for 6 months, with minor improvements and paid $1.25 per acre.
There was a lot more to it than that though. The individual had to sign agreements saying they never fought against the United States government, they couldn't owe debt, they had to be able to afford to clear, farm and build on the land for those five years. They then had to find people to sign acknowledgements that those improvements were actually done and the land wasn't abandoned.
This is Thomas Jefferson, who was a Republican leader when the party system took hold. He went on to become president of the United States and considered Alexander Hamilton to be a political rival.
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Americans boycotted grapes in the 1960s because the grape growers were unfair to workers. They were made to work long hours without breaks and little pay. As a result, Americans refused to buy grapes in order to help the grape workers union agitate for better working terms.
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2. Muslims are not terrorists because Islam is a peaceful religion that does not condemn violence. Though there are a few terrorists that identify themselves as Muslim they are not following the religious book of Islam “the koran”. There are about 1.9 billion Muslims in the world and the majority are not terrorists. 4. Muslims religion is Islam. 5. Women are not valued equally with men in Islam society in most Muslim country’s such as Afghanistan women are not allowed in school they are told to cook and clean they wear scarfs because it is traditional form it’s worn as privacy to stop men to not to stare at women
