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The 1862 US Homestead Act made more than 500 million acres of land available to be settled and resulted in the largest migration of Americans in the nation’s history. As a result, it must be considered a major event in American history, equal to the American Civil War. What do you think? More at: History
I was born in Simbirsk, Russian Empire, in 1870. My birth name was Vladimir Ulyanov. Born into a middle-class family, I embraced socialist politics from a young age, serving a period of exile from Russia for my beliefs. In 1917 I established Bolshevik control of Russia after the overthrow of the Tsar and Provisional Government,…
