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| == Senate career == | | == Senate career == |
| In the 1840s, Lincoln criticized President [[James K. Polk|Polk]]'s [[Mexican–Statesian War|invasion of Mexico]] and believed only [[United States Congress|Congress]] should have the power to declare war.<ref name=":022">{{Citation|author=[[Michael Parenti]]|year=2000|title=To Kill a Nation|chapter=NATO's War Crimes|page=117|pdf=https://leftychan.net/edu/src/1614706295182-3.pdf|publisher=Verso}}</ref> | | In the 1840s, Lincoln criticized President [[James K. Polk|Polk]]'s invasion of [[Mexican United States|Mexico]] and believed only [[United States Congress|Congress]] should have the power to declare war.<ref name=":022">{{Citation|author=[[Michael Parenti]]|year=2000|title=To Kill a Nation|chapter=NATO's War Crimes|page=117|pdf=https://leftychan.net/edu/src/1614706295182-3.pdf|publisher=Verso}}</ref> |
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| == Homestead Act ==
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| In 1862, Lincoln passed the Homestead Act, allowing [[Settler colonialism|settlers]] to claim 160 acres of land. They could get this land for free after five years or after six months if they paid and could get even more land with timber culture or desert land claims, which they did not have to live on. Most of this land went to land speculators or large landowners instead of individual families. The Morrill Act and Pacific Railroad Act also stole land from natives to establish universities and railroads.<ref name=":0">{{Citation|author=[[Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz]]|year=2014|title=An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States|chapter="Indian Country"|pdf=https://www.lcps.org/cms/lib/VA01000195/Centricity/Domain/10601/An%20Indigenous%20Peoples%20History%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Ortiz.pdf|city=Boston, Massachusetts|publisher=Beacon Press|isbn=9780807000403|page=140–1}}</ref>
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| == References == | | == References == |
