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The Land Donation Act, however, also acknowledged women's property rights due to Congress allowing the donation of four hundred acres to settlers—land that could be claimed by heads of households—including women. [18] This act differed from the Homestead Act of 1866 due to the ineligibility of Black citizens from applying. [19]
The Southern Homestead Act of 1866 was a United States federal law intended to offer land to prospective farmers, white and black, in the South following the American Civil War. It was repealed in 1876 after mostly benefiting white recipients.
Land in Bolivia was unequally distributed – 92% of the cultivable land was held by large estates – until the Bolivian national revolution in 1952. Then, the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement government abolished forced peasantry labor and established a program of expropriation and distribution of the rural property of the traditional landlords to the indigenous peasants.
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 ...
Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed in the 1920s and 1930s by C. H. Douglas.Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made them.
Paternostro estimates she would have received $2,500 a month in Social Security benefits — about $300,000 over the last decade. "That's a lot of money," she said. "That's more money than I can ...
The Social Security Fairness Act (SSFA), which was recently signed into law by former president Joe Biden, eliminates rules that reduce Social Security benefits for those who also get income from...
The Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 made it easier for both groups to obtain credit cards and loans. The act includes rights and protections for consumers applying for credit.