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TIL In 1862 Lincoln signed the Morrill Act which took 10.7 million acres from 250 tribes creating violence-backed land-grab universities as the root of higher education, economic development, and improved quality of life. Lincoln ordered 38 Dakota resistance hanged, the largest ever mass execution.

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