1 Therefore, she invited her to visit the U.S. 2  After a total stay of two months in India, she headed to the U.S. again. 3  She stayed in the U.S. for 5 months and visited her other daughter's houses too. 4  Lakshmi went back to India. 5  Two months later, her middle daughter informed her that she is pregnant.
Twelve people were killed during the strike and another 23 were injured. The Homestead Strike started on June 30, 1892 and ended on July 6, 1892. It was a fight between steel workers in Pennsylvania and a company called Carnegie Steel.
Signed into law in May 1862, the Homestead Act opened up settlement in the western United States, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. By the end of the Civil War, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years. Eventually, 1.6 million individual claims would be approved; nearly ten percent of all government held property for a total of 420,000 square miles of territory.