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  2. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    The claimed homestead could include the same land which they had previously filed a preemption claim (on up to 160 acres at $1.25 per acre, or up to 80 acres of subdivided and surveyed land at $2.50 per acre), and they could expand their current ownership to contiguous adjacent land up to 160 acres total. The homestead application must be "made ...

  3. Privatization of public land (United States) - Wikipedia

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    As of 2020, the federal government owns roughly 640 million acres of land, the majority of which is concentrated in the Western US and Alaska. [1] Privatization of public land involves the selling or auctioning of public lands to the private sector. The private sector can refer to private individuals, industry, or corporations. [citation needed]

  4. Homestead exemption - Wikipedia

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    The rural acre allotment is doubled for a family: 200 acres (81 hectares) can be shielded from creditors in Texas for a rural homestead. [ 3 ] In Kansas and Oklahoma, exemptions protect 160 acres (65 hectares) of land of any value outside of a municipality's corporate limits and 1 acre (0.40 hectares) of land of any value within a municipality ...

  5. Urban Homesteading: 8 Ways to Save by Going Back to Basics - AOL

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  6. Meet Your Neighbor: Homesteading, sustainable living bring ...

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    Ibarra will host a LNHG Homestead Tour at her farm April 6 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Topics will include native plant permaculture, tree coppicing, mushroom inoculation, spring planting, aquaponics, and ...

  7. Homestead Act of 1860 - Wikipedia

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    This was at a time where Northerners believed that the federal government should give 160-acre (0.65 km 2; 0.25 sq mi) plots of vacant Western land to pioneers for free. People went to the West to start new lives and wanted cheap land.

  8. Homesteading by African Americans - Wikipedia

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    In all, more than 160 million acres (650 thousand km 2; 250 thousand sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States, were given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders; most of the homesteads were west of the Mississippi River. These acts were the first sovereign decisions of post-war North–South capitalist ...

  9. Southern Homestead Act of 1866 - Wikipedia

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    The land was initially in parcels of 80-acre (0.32 km 2) (half-quarter section) until June 1868, and thereafter parcels of 160-acre (0.65 km 2) (quarter section, or one quarter of a square mile), and homesteaders were required to occupy and improve the land for five years before acquiring full ownership.