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{{Short description|Vetoed United States legislation}} |
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[[File:The Homestead Act.png|thumb|The Homestead Act in the US Senate, 1859]] |
[[File:The Homestead Act.png|thumb|The Homestead Act in the US Senate, 1859]] |
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The '''Homestead Act of 1860''' in the [[United States]] would have made land available for 25 cents per [[acre]]. This act was passed by the [[United States Congress]], but was ultimately [[veto]]ed by President [[James Buchanan]].<ref>[https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/artifact/president-james-buchanans-veto-s-416-homestead-act-june-22-1860 President James Buchanan’s veto of S. 416, the Homestead Act, June 22, 1860],</ref> |
The '''Homestead Act of 1860''' in the [[United States]] would have made land available for 25 cents per [[acre]]. This act was passed by the [[United States Congress]], but was ultimately [[veto]]ed by President [[James Buchanan]].<ref>[https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/artifact/president-james-buchanans-veto-s-416-homestead-act-june-22-1860 President James Buchanan’s veto of S. 416, the Homestead Act, June 22, 1860] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200504020047/https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/artifact/president-james-buchanans-veto-s-416-homestead-act-june-22-1860 |date=May 4, 2020 }},</ref> |
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==Proponents== |
==Proponents== |
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[[Category:United States federal public land legislation]] |
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[[Category:1860 in law]] |
[[Category:1860 in American law]] |
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[[Category:Settlement schemes]] |
[[Category:Settlement schemes in the United States]] |
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[[Category:Veto]] |
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[[Category:Bleeding Kansas]] |
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[[Category:James Buchanan]] |
[[Category:James Buchanan]] |
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The Homestead Act of 1860 in the United States would have made land available for 25 cents per acre. This act was passed by the United States Congress, but was ultimately vetoed by President James Buchanan.[1]
Proponents
[edit]This was at a time where Northerners believed that the federal government should give 160-acre (0.65 km2; 0.25 sq mi) plots of vacant Western land to pioneers for free. People went to the West to start new lives and wanted cheap land.
Opposition
[edit]There was much concern about the free land idea. Southerners, who were very pro-slavery, worried that this would result in the West becoming populated with free-soilers. This in turn would create many new anti-slavery states, creating an imbalance in the Senate, destroying the South's control. This was the main reason for Buchanan's veto; he consistently did what the South wanted. Another group who opposed this idea was the Eastern industrialists. They feared employees would be drained into the West for free land.