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
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Having already learned of the orders, colonial leaders fled Boston to avoid arrest. Gage decided to seize and destroy arms the patriots had stored at Concord<span>, 20 miles northwest of Boston. On the night of April 18, 1775, 700 </span>British soldiers<span>began to </span>march<span> toward </span>Concord<span>.</span>