Homestead Acts
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homestead-acts-181-1590294
title:
Homestead Acts
text:
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 called a homestead. In all, more than 160 million acres of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States, were given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders; most of the homesteads were west of the Mississippi River. These acts were the first sovereign decisions of post-war North–South capitalist cooperation in the Uni
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
US laws allowing ownership of unclaimed land
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Acts
date created:
2002-06-08T21:18:39Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T16:00:11Z
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