Gates reports that "For the country as a whole, slightly less than 50 per cent of the original homesteads were carried to patent." See Paul Gates, The Jeffersonian Dream, "The
Homestead Act: Free Land Policy in Operation, 1862-1935," 48.
Land laws such as the
Homestead Act could have been modified to allow for much larger, non-farming distributions, but they were not.
Yn gyntaf oherwydd Deddf y Tyddyn (
Homestead Act) 1862, pan ganiataodd y Llywodraeth 160 acer o dir i dyddynwyr am dal bychan fel y gallai llawer o ffermwyr fforddio i symud i'r gorllewin.
1862
Homestead Act and permitted single women to make homestead claims.
This program included a
Homestead Act, a Land Grant Education Act, an income tax, a protective tariff, and, by the Civil War's end, a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery.
John had brought the family from Canada to Benzie County in 1863 to take advantage of the
Homestead Act.
The
Homestead Act, which dates back to 1862 (and is no longer in effect), impacted our world.
He instances the
Homestead Act, which he says "gave hundreds of thousands a stake in property, on the condition that they would use their own practical intelligence and labor to develop it" (p.
The task force recommended the passage of a Capital Homesteading Act, in conscious imitation of the
Homestead Act signed by Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War, which opened up the immense store of wealth represented by the great plains of North America to all citizens who were willing and able to work the land.
Congress used elements from the
Homestead Act of 1862 to grant land to settlers and to protect those grants from pre-existing creditors during the early settlement period.