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Homestead Act

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Home·stead Act  (hmstd)
n.
An act passed by Congress in 1862 promising ownership of a 160-acre tract of public land to a citizen or head of a family who had resided on and cultivated the land for five years after the initial claim.
Homestead Act
n
1. (Law) an act passed by the US Congress in 1862 making available to settlers 160-acre tracts of public land for cultivation
2. (Law) (in Canada) a similar act passed by the Canadian Parliament in 1872


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A provision of the New Homestead Act would pay up to 50% of college loans for recent graduates who live and work for 5 years in rural counties that have lost popuLation.
Travis's dilemma: his father wants him to take over the family farm ... by Smith, Patricia / New York Times Upfront
Emma Draper's letters are a precious record of a struggle to find a new life in the era of the 1862 Homestead Act.
Draper, Arthur Gibbs, ed. My Ever Dear Charlie: Letters Home from the ... by Moore, Patricia / Kliatt
Reacting to squatter pressures, Congress at first confirmed tides retroactively, then with the 1841 Preemption Act offered the land prospectively for sale to squatters, and finally with the 1862 Homestead Act granted the land free of charge prospectively.
Illegal cities: life among the third world's squatters by Nelson, Robert H. / Reason
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