This is how the Homestead Act of 1862 is described by Blake Bell ... What today is called the Great Plains was at that time identified on maps as the Great American Desert. Under the act, $ ...

talks about immigration law in the United States and the debate surrounding the Homestead Act of 1862. The law distributed government land to private citizens or a person who “has filed his ...

This is how the Homestead Act of 1862 is described by Blake Bell ... What today is called the Great Plains was at that time identified on maps as the Great American Desert. Under the act, $ ...

This is how the Homestead Act of 1862 is described by Blake Bell ... What today is called the Great Plains was at that time identified on maps as the Great American Desert. Under the act, $ ...

On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a program that offered government-held land to would-be small farmers. The act, which went into effect Jan. 1, 1863 ...

Will gave an excellent account of how the 1862 Homestead Act gave hundreds of thousands of immigrants and poor Americans the chance to improve their own prospects and those of the country.

talks about immigration law in the United States and the debate surrounding the Homestead Act of 1862. The law distributed government land to private citizens or a person who “has filed his ...

(U. S. Statutes at Large, Vol. XII, p. 392 ff.) AN ACT to secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain. Be it enacted, That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived ...