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Frontier House is a historical reality television series that originally aired on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States from April 29 to May 3, 2002. The series followed three family groups that agreed to live as homesteaders did in Montana Territory on the American frontier in 1883.
The intent of the Homestead Act of 1862 [24] [25] was to reduce the cost of homesteading under the Preemption Act; after the South seceded and their delegates left Congress in 1861, the Republicans and supporters from the upper South passed a homestead act signed by Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862, which went into effect on Jan. 1st, 1863.
West Virginia Public Broadcasting (WVPB) is the public television and radio state network serving the U.S. state of West Virginia.It is owned by the West Virginia Public Broadcasting Authority, an agency of the state government that holds the licenses for all Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio member stations licensed in West Virginia.
In response to the Great Depression, the Subsistence Homesteads Division was created by the federal government in 1933 with the aim to improve the living conditions of individuals moving away from overcrowded urban centers while also giving them the opportunity to experience small-scale farming and home ownership. [6]
This is a list of programs currently or formerly broadcast on public television by PBS Kids on local PBS stations and the 24/7 channel in the United States. Current programming 1 Co-distributed by Amazon Prime Video , the official streaming partner for PBS Kids programming.
The home of many children’s classic TV shows has launched PBS Retro, a free ad-supported channel that’s available via the Roku channel on Smart TVs, Roku devices, and web browsers. The channel ...
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The Timber Culture Act was a follow-up act to the Homestead Act.The Timber Culture Act was passed by Congress in 1873. The act allowed homesteaders to get another 160 acres (65 ha) of land if they planted trees on one-fourth of the land, because the land was "almost one entire plain of grass, which is and ever must be useless to cultivating man."