Examples of Homesteading in the following topics:
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- The Homestead strike of 1892 was organized and purposeful; it was the second largest labor dispute in United States history.
- The Homestead strike was organized and purposeful, a harbinger of the type of strike that would mark the modern age of labor relations in the United States.
- He may belong to as many unions or organizations as he chooses, but we think our employees at Homestead Steel Works would fare much better working under the system in vogue at Edgar Thomson and Duquesne."
- The Knights of Labor, which had organized the mechanics and transportation workers at Homestead, agreed to walk out alongside the skilled workers of the AA.
- But a race war between nonunion black and white workers in the Homestead plant broke out on July 22, 1892.
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- Republicans sponsored bills, such as the homestead program, that would give western lands to individual (non-slave owning) farmers, and supported internal
improvements designed to facilitate commercial travel to the frontier and
develop infrastructure.
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that end, Republicans supported various railroad- and steamboat-building
projects, approved the construction of new canals and roads, wrote legislation
for higher tariffs as entrepreneurial incentives for financiers and
industrialists, and passed homestead acts that enabled thousands of families to
move west to establish productive farms and form larger communities.
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- With the establishment of the Confederacy, Republicans in Congress enacted sweeping federal changes, including implementation of the Morrill Tariff and passage of the Homestead Act, Pacific Railroad Act, and National Banking Act.
- The 1862 Homestead Act opened up public-domain lands for family farms at no cost.
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- The rigors of life in the West presented many challenges and difficulties to homesteaders.
- The land was dry and barren, and homesteaders lost crops to hail, droughts, insect swarms, and other challenges.
- Although homestead farming was the primary goal of most western settlers in the latter half of the 19th century, a small minority sought to make their fortunes quickly through other means.
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- Pioneer women made important decisions and were considered by their husbands to be more equal partners in the success of the homestead, due to the necessity that all members had to work hard and contribute to the farming enterprise for it to succeed.
- While homesteaders were often families, gold speculators and ranchers tended to be single men in pursuit of fortune.
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- These Democrats felt that Lincoln's nomination in 1860 threatened the institution of slavery; they also opposed the Republican goals of enacting a tariff for the protection of industry and granting free homesteads to settlers who would aid in the opening of the West.
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- With the Homestead Act of 1862, more settlers came west to set up farms.
- Barbed wire, invented in 1874, gradually made inroads in fencing off privately owned land, especially for homesteads.
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- The Homestead Act granted 160 acres to each settler who improved the land for five years, whether citizens or non-citizens and including squatters and women, for no more than modest filing fees.
- The land given to the railroads alternated with government-owned tracts saved for distribution to homesteaders.
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- Part of this settlement can be attributed to: the influx of immigrants, the Homestead Act, and railroad construction.
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- The Southerners resisted Homestead Acts because it supported the growth of a free farmer population that might oppose slavery.
- When the Republican Party came to power in 1860 they promoted a free land policy—notably the Homestead Act of 1862, coupled with railroad land grants that opened cheap (but not free) lands for settlers.