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...

Convention Compromise of 1850 Uncle Tom's Cabin Recapture of Anthony Burns Kansas–Nebraska Act Ostend Manifesto Bleeding Kansas Caning of Charles Sumner Dred...

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...

purchased a plot of land. Perry finally reached Uraga at the entrance to Edo Bay in Japan on 8 July 1853. His fleet at this time consisted of four vessels:...

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...

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...

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...

1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853, and was the last president to have been a member of the Whig Party while in office...

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...

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...

president he signed into law the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 as part of the larger Compromise of 1850, which mandated that escaped slaves in free states...

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...

after Fillmore's presidency. On September 21, 1850, Fillmore signed the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 which was intended to promote homestead settlements...

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...

The inauguration of Millard Fillmore as the 13th president of the United States, was held on Wednesday, July 10, 1850, at the House chamber inside the...

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...

As of 2022, it is open for tours by reservation only. The Fillmore House stands on the east side of Shearer Avenue north of Main Street, west of the...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...