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How the West Was SettledThe 150-Year-Old Homestead Act Lured AmericansLooking for a New Life and New OpportunitiesBy Greg BradsherWhen the war for American independence formally ended in 1783, the United States covered more than 512 million acres of land. By 1860, the nation had acquired more than billion more acres, much of it in the public domain. How to dispose of the public land was a question that Congress addressed almost continuously. At the nation s beginning, the land was seen primarily as a source of revenue to reduce the national debt, and most land laws adopted before the Civil War provided for the sale of public lands, after 1820, at $ an the 1820s through the 1840s, westerners pushed for more l
1878 and 1885 as railroad lines, especially the Great Northern Railroad, pushed fur-ther west, and prosperity returned to the country after the Panic of 1873. The most spectacular burst of settlement occurred be-tween 1881 and 1885, when 67,000 settlers took up homesteads in the territory. European immigration fed these booms.
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