What horrible thing was also going on in the U. S. as the Homestead Act was being launched from 1861 to 1865

The biggest problem with the Homestead Acts was the fact that the size of the homesteads — 160 acres — was far too small to allow for the landowners to succeed as independent farmers.

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becasue in the south they disallowed slavery but in the north slavery was illegial this boilled into because mexico wanted slavery

by 1880, germany had more rail lines than great britain and russia.