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This pattern became even clearer after the Civil War , despite the Homestead Act of 1862 with its promise of free land for all . Between 1860 and 1900 the farm population of the United States increased from 19 million to 28 million ...
This pattern became even clearer after the Civil War , despite the Homestead Act of 1862 with its promise of free land for all . Between 1860 and 1900 the farm population of the United States increased from 19 million to 28 million ...
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As a result for every one who obtained free land from the Government seven bought their farms from land - jobbers . Thus Turner's repeated emphasis on ' free land ' as the main inducement for migration needs modification .
As a result for every one who obtained free land from the Government seven bought their farms from land - jobbers . Thus Turner's repeated emphasis on ' free land ' as the main inducement for migration needs modification .
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Yet these regions all shared one thing : they were accessible areas of the world with low man : land ratios and abundant natural resources . As such they provided unusual opportunities for the individual to better himself .
Yet these regions all shared one thing : they were accessible areas of the world with low man : land ratios and abundant natural resources . As such they provided unusual opportunities for the individual to better himself .
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Contents
The Years of Disillusion | 1 |
Miss Jabavu tells her story with a distinction of style | 2 |
The British Electoral System | 11 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 301 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1963 |
| Original from | University of Georgia Libraries |
| Digitized | 10 Jun 2022 |
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