homestead hareket

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homestead act
a law for getting people to move to the Great Plains and the Northwest
The 1862 Homestead Act gave a settler 160 acres (80 within railroad grant areas) for living on a tract of land for 5 years and showing improvement to the land Improvements consisted of clearing the land for farming, building a house, ranching, etc Other land grant acts were also issued over the years but the Homestead Act is probably the most famous
Passed by the Republican-dominated Congress in 1862, this act granted 160 acres free to individuals who agreed to farm that land for at least five years It was part of the Union effort to sustain wartime prosperity
Legislation passed in 1862 allowing any citizen or applicant for citizenship over 21 years old and head of a family to acquire 160 acres of public land by living on it and cultivating it for five years
homestead hareket