Andrew Johnson championed the Homestead Act explicitly for poor whites.
Evidence
“Beginning in 1843, when he was first elected to the U.S. Congress, and over the next nineteen years, Johnson had championed the Homestead Act, which would give, not lease, 160 acres in the West to citizens who were ‘without money’—meaning poor whites.” Johnson was supportive of the original Homestead Act. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 872
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: The Homestead Act never delivered free land to ordinary settlers — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2414; The Homestead Act gave 160 acres each to white settlers and immigrants — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 328; The Homestead Act left 46 million white descendants with land, blacks landless (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Homestead Act never delivered free land to ordinary settlers — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2414; The Homestead Act gave 160 acres each to white settlers and immigrants — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 328; The Homestead Act left 46 million white descendants with land, blacks landless (+1 more)