Positive: Helped develop Westward Movement; gave African Americans a chance to start a new life. Negative: Fear of the Unknown; Indians were pushed off their land.
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The positive results were the expansion to the west and the negative effects was the Indian removal act
On May 20th 1862 President Abraham Lincoln, signed into law the first Homestead Act.
The Homestead Act of 1862.
The Homestead Act of 1862.
Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on May 20, 1862.