Homestead Act: Meaning and Definition of

Home'stead Act"

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  1. a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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