The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically...

living on it Homestead Acts, several United States federal laws that gave millions of acres to farmers known as homesteaders Homestead exemption (U.S...

In North America the word "homestead" historically referred to land claimed by a settler or squatter under the Homestead Acts (United States) or the Dominion...

relocation of many Indigenous people. Guided by legal homestead principles, many of these "homestead acts" were instituted in the 19th and 20th centuries and...

The Reconstruction Acts, or the Military Reconstruction Acts (March 2, 1867, 14 Stat. 428-430, c.153; March 23, 1867, 15 Stat. 2-5, c.6; July 19, 1867...

the Homestead Acts in 1862 accelerated settlement and agricultural development in the state. After the Civil War, many veterans constructed homesteads in...

of the Transcontinental Railroad through Nebraska and passage of the Homestead Acts led to rapid growth in the population of American settlers in the 1870s...

discovered in 1852. The ensuing gold rush, along with the passage of the Homestead Acts in 1862, brought large numbers of American settlers to Montana. Rapid...

comparison to the 28,000 white Americans who entered claims. Homestead Acts Black homesteaders Oubre, Forty Acres and a Mule (1978), pp. 86–87. Oubre, Forty...

undeveloped. One important development in the Western settlement were the Homestead Acts, which provided formal legislation for settlers which regulated the...

five years was up, the homesteader had to have two or three witnesses sign a document called "Proof Required Under Homestead Acts May 20, 1862 . . . " Freeman...

Policy and Management Act phased out homesteading in the United States by repealing the pre-existing Homestead Acts. Multiple factors led to the passing...

States had resisted policies such as tariffs to promote industry and the Homestead Acts to promote farming, because slavery in the United States would not benefit...

Eufaula riot of 1874 Freedmen's Bureau Freedman's Savings Bank Homestead Acts Southern Homestead Act of 1866 Timber Culture Act of 1873 Impeachment of Andrew...

land during the 1800s and early 1900s, following the passage of the Homestead Acts. While early Jewish immigrants often behaved like other settlers in...

the Absaroka Agency Fort was destroyed in a fire in 1891. With the Homestead Acts of the 1860s and the westward expansion of the railroad, more settlers...

1875) 15th Governor of Tennessee (1853–1857, 1862–1865) Pre-presidency Homestead Acts Southern Unionist War Democrat 1864 U.S. presidential election 1864...

valley's settlers. Though they have claimed their land legally under the Homestead Acts, a ruthless cattle baron, Rufus Ryker, has hired various rogues and...

easy land ownership, and Whigs and Southern Democrats resisted the Homestead Acts for supporting the growth of a free farmer population that might oppose...

cooperation in the United States. An extension of the homestead principle in law, the Homestead Acts were an expression of the Free Soil policy of Northerners...

resemblance to historical events. Homesteaders began to settle northern Wyoming in the 1890s, claiming land under the Homestead Acts, but there were no hordes...

years. Before the American Civil War, Southern leaders opposed the Homestead Acts because they feared it would lead to more free states and free territories...

1875) 15th Governor of Tennessee (1853–1857, 1862–1865) Pre-presidency Homestead Acts Southern Unionist War Democrat 1864 U.S. presidential election 1864...

in the colonies, the number of patents issued acts as an indicator of the demand for land. Homestead Acts Indentured servitude in Virginia Patroon Tribune-Star...

passage of important domestic legislation, including the first of the Homestead Acts, the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862, and the Pacific Railroad Act of...

Washington, D.C. towards the end of the session in 1804. Land Act of 1820 Homestead Acts, starting in 1862, used the 160-acre (0.65 km2) guideline. A Century...

population in that area. In 1862, Congress passed the first of the "Homestead Acts", which were largely designed to encourage settlement of the Great Plains...

Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 opened both territories to White settlement. The Homestead Acts of 1862 further encouraged settlement and agricultural development in...

into what is now the town of Edgewood. Taking advantage of the federal Homestead Acts, pioneer families obtained land claims and began farming and ranching...

federal government eventually gave away much of this land through the Homestead Acts. The first grants were given to the Mobile and Ohio and Illinois Central...