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.
Conflict and Negotiation with European Settlers. In the years after the Homestead Act, Europeans moved in ever greater numbers into Native American territory. In the 1860s and â70s, the United States Army was engaged in war with the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes.or the immigrants, the threat they felt from Native Americans was probably greater than the actual history. There was conflict â theft, fights and murder on both sides. But there were also hundreds of treaty negotiations across the continent.