HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - The Fluid, Overfishing
Document Summary
The vast majority of the resettlement process float into rural areas in first half of 19th c. 1825 only 3 % of uc lived in towns. Early on free land grants were given to attract settlers. So people have to spend money to acquire land. A lot of tension and conflict of allotting land. Large land grants go to people as a patronage. Uc this was often an explicit project of trying to build up a local aristocracy. In us the giving of land to friends was patronage or. Large block of land not rewarded to everyday farmers. ^ drives up the cost of land (supply and demand), absentee owners hold back the entire area, 1824 uc law passed for people who hadn"t paid their taxes in. 8 years u had to pay or forfeit the land (law to try to get rid of absentee owners), Over time the settlement started to get heavier.
