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  2. Homestead Acts - Wikipedia

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    The last claim under this Act was made by Ken Deardorff for 80 acres (32 ha) of land on the Stony River in southwestern Alaska. He fulfilled all requirements of the homestead act in 1979 but did not receive his deed until May 1988. He is the last person to receive a title to land claimed under the Homestead Acts. [48]

  3. Forty acres and a mule - Wikipedia

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    General William T. Sherman, who issued the orders that were the genesis of forty acres and a mule. Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha ...

  4. $15 million in land purchased to protect 'America's Amazon ...

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    Nearly 8,000 acres of Alabama's most sensitive land, known as "America's Amazon" for its biodiversity and wildlife, will be protected thanks to a major purchase by The Nature Conservancy in ...

  5. Economy of Alabama - Wikipedia

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    Aquaculture is a large part of the economy of Alabama. [17] Alabamians began to practice aquaculture in the early 1960s. [18] U.S. farm-raised catfish is the 8th most popular seafood product in America. [19] By 2008, approximately 4,000 people in Alabama were employed by the catfish industry and Alabama produced 132 million pounds of catfish. [17]

  6. Andrew Jackson and the slave trade in the United States ...

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    The population of colonial-era Natchez was clustered along the waterways (which also served as the region's commercial thoroughfares), [9] namely the Big Black River, Bayou Pierre, Cole's Creek, Fairchild's Creek, St. Catherine's Creek, and the Homochitto River, with its right-bank tributaries Second Creek and Sandy Creek. [10]

  7. [6] [7] [8] So, under such circumstances, farming could not be done at a profit. Mining and other economic activity in the West were similarly inhibited because of the high cost of wagon transportation. One Congressman referring to the West, bluntly stated that “All that land wasn’t worth ten cents until the railroads came.” [9] [10]

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