Аннотация

This is the third article of the author’s series on the U.S. agrarian question published in the academic American Yearbooks. It deals with the final stage of the people’s struggle for land, when the Congress adopted the famous Homestead Act in 1862. Homestead Act did not permit the nation’s Public Domain and valuable natural resources to come under the control of a relatively small number of people. This Act as well as the law creating a Department of Agriculture and the Land Grant College act were designed to help the Union war efforts by increasing agricultural production. This wartime agricultural legislation did much to settle the American West and provide homes and lands for farming families.