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Serjik [45]
3 years ago
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Why was federal land grant legislation so contentious

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1 answer:
Neporo4naja [7]3 years ago
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Answer: because northerners and Republicans wanted to free up large plots of land to settlement by individual farmers, while Southern Democrats sought to make the lands of the west available only to slave-owners.
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