MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE MEXICAN AMERICAN WAR
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Compromise of 1850
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Pearce Act
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Homestead Act
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Stafford Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -The 1862 Homestead Act accelerated settlement of U.S. western territory by allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land.
Detailed explanation-2: -To help develop the American West and spur economic growth, Congress passed the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. The act distributed millions of acres of western land to individual settlers.
Detailed explanation-3: -Each homesteader had to live on the land, build a home, make improvements and farm to get the land. The patent they received represented the culmination of hard work and determination. Nearly four million homesteaders settled land across 30 states over 123 years.
Detailed explanation-4: -Homesteading came to an end in the lower 48 states over a century later in 1976 with the passage of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act. The last claim was issued in 1974 to Ken Deardorff for a homestead in Alaska. However, free land is still available from small towns and cities or farming communities.
Detailed explanation-5: -The new law established a three-fold homestead acquisition process: file an application, improve the land, and file for deed of title. Any U.S. citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. Government could file an application and lay claim to 160 acres of surveyed Government land.