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The homestead act was an affordable housing program that was a great success.
by User23 8y ago
The homestead act was an affordable housing program that was a great success.
- philwelch 8y agoThe problem was, we ran out of frontier. And we're not gonna get any more frontier anytime soon.
- jfk13 8y agoAs someone[1] wrote, "The acquisition of new soil for the settlement of the excess population possesses an infinite number of advantages..." After all, it seemed to work out pretty well for those 19th-century Americans. [1] http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/mkv1ch04.html http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/mkv1ch04.html
- philwelch 8y agoWell that was the craziest Godwinning I've ever seen.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoExcept for the problem of having to get there. If you lived in Virginia and wanted to homestead in Nebraska, you'd probably need a wagon, team, tools, supplies, and seed. That was a significant capital requirement. If you were dirt poor, I'm not sure you could do it.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoI'm part Cherokee. I'm trying to learn about that aspect of my heritage. My father was very white passing and I believe he actively tried to convince the world to perceive him as white to sidestep the horrifying impact of racism. I imagine Natives probably don't feel so positive about the success of the homestead act. A thing I wrote previously that really opened my eyes to how insidiously Native land and wealth was stolen by homesteaders: https://1001histories.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-little-known-bear-river-massacre.html https://1001histories.blogspot.com/2017/08/the-little-known-...
- maxxxxx 8y agoThat’s why the US is suffering now from the same problems a lot of older countries have had for a long time. There are no areas left where you can just kick out the Natives so now people have to fight for a fixed pie insted of being able to grow.