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The Homestead Act of 1862 opened up millions of acres. Any adult who had never taken up arms against the federal government of the United States could apply. Women and immigrants who had applied for citizenship were eligible. Most homesteading occurred during the period 1900–1930. [3]
African Americans in the United States have a unique history of homesteading, in part due to historical discrimination and legacies of enslavement. Black American communities were negatively impacted by the Homestead Act's implementation, which was designed to give land to those who had been enslaved and other underprivileged groups. The act ...
Homestead Records was a United States–based record label of the 1920s and early 1930s. [1] The first pressings were produced by the Regal Record Company and drew on the same material as Regal, Banner and related labels.
This newly acquired farmland was typically called a homestead. In all, more than 160 million acres (650,000 km 2; 250,000 sq mi) of public land, or nearly 10 percent of the total area of the United States was given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders. [1] However, until the United States abolished slavery in 1865 and the passage of the 14th ...
The GLO oversaw the surveying, platting, and sale of the public lands in the Western United States and administered the Homestead Act [2] and the Preemption Act in disposal of public lands. The frantic pace of public land sales in the 19th century American West led to the idiomatic expression "land-office business", meaning a thriving or high ...
Homestead Records was a Long Island, New York–based sublabel of music distributor Dutch East India Trading that operated from 1983 to 1996. The label was known for not paying its artists and not spending any money on promotion.
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 It was repealed in 1876 after mostly benefiting white recipients.
Homestead Acts, several United States federal laws that gave millions of acres to farmers known as homesteaders Homestead exemption (U.S. law), a legal program to protect the value of a residence from expenses and/or forced sale arising from the death of a spouse