federal law, the Swamp Land Act of 1850, fully titled "An act to enable the State of Arkansas and other States to reclaim the swamp lands within their...

Indiana. It was drained due to land speculation that followed the Swamp Land Act of 1850. Today, the dry lake bed is part of the Kankakee Sands nature preserve...

The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that temporarily defused tensions between...

development. Calloway made preliminary surveys and filed land claims under the Swamp Land Act of 1850. He interested the wealthy San Francisco capitalist Thomas...

on until well into his later years. Millard Fillmore became president in 1850, and his father visited him at the White House in 1851. He died in East Aurora...

projects of the Swamp Land Act of 1850, which resulted in the disappearance of virtually all of the once-imposing swamps. Most of that land resides in...

1850 by the Swamp Land Act of 1850. Gaylord was officially incorporated as a village in 1881, with the first council meeting being held in March of the...

Fugitive Slave Act or Fugitive Slave Law was a law passed by the 31st United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between...

federal flood control law was the Swamp Land Act of 1850. A flood on the Mississippi River in 1874 led to the creation of the Mississippi River Commission...

Quinquennial Catalogue of the Officers and Graduates. Cambridge, MA: Metcalf and Company. p. 108. "Millard Fillmore Thirteenth President • 1850-53". Internet Public...

October 21, 1813 – August 11, 1881) was the second wife of Millard Fillmore, the 13th president of the United States. They were married in 1858, five years...

July 26, 1854) was the daughter of President Millard Fillmore and Abigail Powers. During her father's presidency from 1850 to 1853 she often served as White...

Due to development, deforestation, and the Swamp Land Act of 1850, little of these habitats remain. The land Dos Rios sits on became farmland for dairies...

development. Calloway made preliminary surveys and filed land claims under the Swamp Land Act of 1850. He interested the wealthier Thomas Henry Blythe (1882-April...

Indigenous people of the Everglades region Seminole History of Miami, Florida Restoration of the Everglades Swamp Land Act of 1850 Clean Water Act (1972) North...

proceeds of half of the land grant conveyed to Wisconsin by Congress in the Swamp Land Act of 1850, after the Legislature determined not all of the swampland...

of Louisiana. ISBN 1887366768. Seasons of Light in the Atchafalaya Basin. November 1, 1983 by Greg Guirard. ISBN 0685294277. Swamp Land Act of 1850 Article...

than by turning gravel".: 139  The Swamp Land Act of 1850 gave states the ability to purchase federally-owned "swamp and overflowed public lands" on the...

Atikamekw language. The real name of the location of the village of Manawan is Metapeckeka, which means "where swamps emerge" or "savannah that emerges...

The Great Dismal Swamp maroons were people who inhabited the swamplands of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina after escaping enslavement...

of land west of the then London district and called it the Huron Tract. The Canada Company was the administrative agent for the Huron Tract. An Act of...

county in 1854) Clinch County (from portions of Lowndes and Ware counties in 1850) Coffee County (from portions of Clinch, Irwin, Telfair, and Ware counties...

The National Economic Security and Recovery Act (NESARA) is a set of proposed economic reforms for the United States suggested during the 1990s by private...

Slave Codes of 1705 (formally entitled An act concerning Servants and Slaves), were a series of laws enacted by the Colony of Virginia's House of Burgesses...

are: California, before statehood in 1850, was only crudely surveyed with the boundaries of Spanish and Mexican land grants (ranchos); since statehood the...

Prairie Story". Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area. "Land Between the Lakes Protection Act" October 1998 Ronald A. Foresta. The Land Between the...

September 24, 1831. Breen, Patrick H. (2015). The land shall be deluged in blood: a new history of the Nat Turner Revolt. New York. ISBN 978-0-19-982800-5...

Mexican–American War of the 1840s, captured and returned fleeing enslaved people to their slaveholders. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made it a criminal act to aid...

James C. (October 28, 1990). "UNDERWATER LOTS! SWAMP CITIES! $10 DOWN! WELCOME TO FLORIDA, THE LAND OF SUNSHINE, SURF AND SCAMS". Orlando Sentinel (Digital)...

Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the Reform Act 1832, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom...