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The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, sometimes known as the Donation Land Act, [1] was a statute enacted by the United States Congress in late 1850, intended to promote homestead settlements in the Oregon Territory. It followed the Distribution-Preemption Act 1841.
The Donation Land Claim Act allowed settlers to claim land in the Oregon Territory, then including the modern states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and parts of Wyoming. The Oregon Donation Land Claim Act was passed in 1850 and allowed white settlers to claim 320 acres or 640 to married couples between 1850 and 1855 when the act was repealed.
Marcus Neff (born 1826) had arrived in Oregon in 1848 after taking the Oregon Trail by wagon. He became one of the first men to speculate over land in Oregon. Neff sought a land grant under the Donation Law of Oregon, an act of the United States Congress enacted on September 27, 1850. The act provided an incentive for the development of land in ...
Settlement increased because of the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, in conjunction with the forced relocation of the native population to Indian reservations. The state was admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859.
The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, [1] until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon.
The act legitimized existing land claims in the Oregon Territory and granted 640 acres (2.6 km²) to each married couple who would settle and cultivate the land for four years. The act is considered a forerunner of the 1862 Homestead Act. In 1850 he wrote an address to Congress urging the prohibition of free African-Americans from the Oregon ...
Settlement increased with the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 and the forced relocation of the native population to Indian reservations in Oregon. The first Oregon proposition for a railroad in Oregon was made in 1850 by H. M. Knighton, the original owner of the townsite of St. Helens. Knighton asserted that this would fulfill his township's ...
Lorane was settled by white settlers who participated in the US expansion Westward to Oregon, encouraged by the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, which gave 320 acres of free land to any unmarried white male citizen, or 640 acres to every married couple, who moved to the Oregon Territory before December 1, 1850. [6]