© 2010 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part, except for use as permitted in a license distributed with a certain product or service or otherwise on a password-protected website for classroom use. Land and the Early Westward Movements

© 2010 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part, except for use as permitted in a license distributed with a certain product or service or otherwise on a password-protected website for classroom use. 1)What were the two major land systems that developed during the colonial period and how did they differ in design? 2)What were the two fundamentally different points of view about how land should be made available to the public? 3)How were property rights defined and enforced as settlers moved West?

© 2010 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part, except for use as permitted in a license distributed with a certain product or service or otherwise on a password-protected website for classroom use. 8 main acquisitions Noteworthy: Louisiana Purchase, nearly doubled the size of US at the time; US didn’t really want it all Spending spree (Texas), 1846 (Oregon), 1848 (Mexican acquisition)

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Land systems developed during colonial period: 1)Township Planning- started in New England, expanded into Midwest; rectangular “grids”; usually surveyed before settlement 2)Southern system- settler selected land and surveyed it afterward; no specific order

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Land policy: 1)Conservative- selling large tracts at high prices for cash 2)Liberal policy-selling small parcels at low prices on credit Noteworthy: Homestead Act of sold 160 acres for small fees

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© 2010 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part, except for use as permitted in a license distributed with a certain product or service or otherwise on a password-protected website for classroom use. Disputes certainly occurred, but property rights were fairly orderly and violence was relatively unusual Miners created their own local institutions to settle land claims One boundary marked with the following: “All and everybody, this is my claim, fifty feet on the gulch, cordin to Clear Creek District Law, backed up by shotgun amendments.”