From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The corporate opportunity doctrine is the legal principle providing that directors, officers, and controlling shareholders of a corporation must not take for themselves any business opportunity that could benefit the corporation. The corporate opportunity doctrine is one application of the fiduciary duty of loyalty.
In a milestone in the settlement of the American West, President Abraham Lincoln signs into law the Homestead Act, a program designed to grant public land to small farmers at low cost.
Procedure. 1  Preview: The teacher should review why settlers came to the new world (Unit 1 colonization notes). 2  The teacher should use the power-point on the Homestead Act to begin a lecture on westward movement after the Civil War. 3  Pass out the student packets and primary source analysis worksheets to each student. 4  Students should be placed in 5  ... A