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title: "For what purpose did Congress begin granting federal land in 1850?"  
description: "For what purpose did Congress begin granting federal land in 1850?"  
author: "Gray  park"  
published: 2018-05-22  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42862/for-what-purpose-did-congress-begin-granting-federal-land-in-1850  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# For what purpose did Congress begin granting federal land in 1850? 

For what [purpose](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51345/what-was-the-purpose-of-grandfather-clauses) did [Congress](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34723/the-telangana-government-has-signed-a-technology-partnership-agreement-with-which-country-at-the-world-congress-on-information-technology-wcit-2018) begin granting [federal](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/101582/what-is-the-role-of-the-federal-reserve-in-the-us-economy) land in 1850? \
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