The Homestead Act signed in 1862 opened the settlement in the western US, encouraging Americans including freed slaves, provided they never took up arms against the US government, could claim up to 160 acres of federal land under the basis that land had to be cultivated or use to build a house.
<span>Good relations with other countries in order to control the natural resources apart from rival imperialist <span>policy</span></span>
King George lll and Parliament believed they had the right to tax the American colonies. A lot of the colonists felt they shouldn’t pay these taxes because they were passed in England by Parliament, not by their own colonial governments that were right there. They protested the taxes saying that these taxes violated their rights as British citizens.
