Homestead Act

The Homestead Act placed land in the hands of families.

The federal government would eventually give away much of this land through the Homestead Act.

January 1, 1863, was the day the Homestead Act went into effect.

Settlers under the Homestead Act, however, found the going hard.

The Homestead Act limited the land an individual could own to in order to create small farms.

He fulfilled all requirements of the homestead act in 1979 but did not receive his deed until May 1988.

The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged immigration into the region.

He holds his family's original Homestead Act claim among other land.

With the Homestead Act of 1862, more settlers came west to set up farms.

The 1862 Homestead Act opened up the public domain lands for free.

The government developed no systematic method to evaluate claims under the homestead acts.

The first such law was the Homestead Act passed by Congress in 1862.

In 1871, many more of these settlers moved in and acquired land under the homestead act.

He was recognized as the first person to file a claim under the Homestead Act of 1862.

In this latter role, his committee handled the Homestead Act of 1862.

The party also called for a homestead act and a tariff for revenue only.

People now could get free land in the West due to an 1862 law called the Homestead Act.

The parcels of land allotted under the homestead acts were too small to run a ranch.

He is the last person to receive title to land claimed under the Homestead Acts.

More recently the area was settled in the 1870s under the Homestead Act.

The Homestead Act remedying this was not enacted until 1862.

The farms of the Homestead Act were at least half a mile apart, but usually much more.

But the property has been in the family since the turn of the century, when her husband's grandfather settled it under the Homestead Act.

Using the Homestead Act he petitioned the government and managed to acquire the land.

Settlement was encouraged by the Homestead Act of 1862.