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  2. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    The Preemption Act of 1841 allowed settlers to claim up to 160 acres of federal land for themselves and prevent its sale to others including large landowners or corporations; they paid only a low fixed price of $1.25 per acre ($3.09 per hectare). [13]

  3. Alaska Purchase - Wikipedia

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    The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of Alaska from the Russian Empire by the United States for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867 (equivalent to $129 million in 2023) [1].On May 15 of that year, the United States Senate ratified a bilateral treaty that had been signed on March 30, and American sovereignty became legally effective across the territory on October 18.

  4. Alaska Native Allotment Act - Wikipedia

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    The Alaska Native Allotment Act of 1906 (34 Stat. 197) granted land ownership rights to individual Alaska Natives.The act, which predated the more comprehensive Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) of 1971, was an early attempt by the United States government to address land rights for indigenous peoples in Alaska.

  5. Greenland is a no, but what territories has the U.S. purchased?

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    The U.S. purchased Alaska, a territory from Russia, in 1867 for 586,412 square miles of territory for $12 per square mile, less than two cents an acre, for a total of $7.2 million. Alaska didn’t ...

  6. Biden expected to soon issue anticipated study on proposed ...

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    The Biden administration is soon expected to take the next steps over a contentious lands issue in Alaska. A source told The Hill that next week the administration is expected to release a draft ...

  7. Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act - Wikipedia

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    When Alaska became a state in 1959, section 4 of the Alaska Statehood Act provided that any existing Alaska Native land claims would be unaffected by statehood and held in status quo. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Yet while section 4 of the act preserved Native land claims until later settlement, section 6 allowed for the state government to claim lands deemed ...

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