Homestead Act - a United States Congress adopting the 1862 Act granting every citizen, or any other person intending to adopt US citizenship, 160 acres (approximately 65 acres) of uninhabited lands belonging to the state. received by Indians on the basis of treaties or by fact made) and then the possibility of buying them at nominal value after 5 years of their residence. The law is so far the only land law in the history of the United States - never before has the conditions been so favorable: large land area, preferential prices distributed to very favorable installments. However, the settlers were obliged to serve in the Army of the North during the Civil War, which was the main purpose of the act. The purpose of the law was to settle the western part of the country (the Wild West), the territorial expansion of the United States, the assimilation of indigenous tribes, the development of the farm, and the response to the freesoilers.

By 1900, 80 million acres of land were distributed under this law, divided into approximately 600,000 plots. Bibliography

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