Lecture: Homesteading in America 1862-1988
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Interior Museum. When President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862, he set into motion a federal land program that would involve over 2,000,000 people in 30 states and territories for the next 126 years. When the last homestead was awarded to a Vietnam veteran in 1988, homesteading had evolved to fit not only different environments within the nation, but different political agendas. Join Bureau of Land Management State Archaeologist Robert King as he discusses homesteading in America and the privatization of the nation's land.
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