I guess Abraham Lincoln has access to so much public land that anyone who paid a fee and was a citizen, or planned to become a citizen 160 Acers if they tended, lived and improved the 160 Acers fo 5 years. So crazy yet so generous. The incentive to move America westward, and continuation of removing native American land rights. Because let's face it ownership is a deep routed white man thing. Sharing or fighting to the death was the original way.
Cardboard suitcases in hand. Was no free furnishings upon arrival. Not all religious, just hungry for freedom. Some where douped into farming for free land, but that was a Abraham Lincoln thing. After removal of the native Americans in 1830s Lincoln had to come up with some idea in 1860s to populate harsh descolat areas that still to this day people wonder why they live there.
And we know this because of archeology in which you actually believe? What if everything was the way it is? That simply cannot be true. But I guess that is the beautiful wonder of it all. I choose to believe the earth housed humans that hatched from a egg inside of a cave where from the earth a being was formed that emerged from a cave and turned into what we are today ... Or I believe it was always the way it's been.... Who knows ... I surely don't know but we can make multiple theories.