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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

entered about 6,500 claims to homesteads, and about 1,000 of these eventually resulted in property certificates. Homestead Acts Paul Wallace Gates, "Federal...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

and Whigs and Southern Democrats resisted. The Southerners resisted Homestead Acts because it supported the growth of a free farmer population that might...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

place to go for a hearty Sunday dinner. For 25 years, the lodge served homesteaders, hunters from the Matanuska Valley, and military personnel from the Elmendorf...

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...

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

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...

Eastern European and German Jews. In 1915, with the assistance of the Homestead Acts and the Jewish Agricultural Society, the original synagogue building...

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