Blake Bell, a historian at the Homestead National Monument of America, talks about immigration law in the United States and the debate surrounding the Homestead Act of 1862. The law distributed ...

In 2007, Washington state law was changed to increase the homestead exemption in this state to $125,000, which is about the same as the homestead exemption in other western states.

On May 20, 1862, President Lincoln grabbed his pen and changed America forever. Congress tried to pass homestead bills three ...

Most states have homestead exemptions, but the rules and protection limits vary. Homestead Act The Homestead Act, enacted during the Civil War in 1862, accelerated the settlement of the western ...

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Under the Homestead Act, which continued in effect in Alaska until 1986, more than 270 million acres — approximately 422,000 square miles or 2.5 Californias — were privatized.

The state law is not to be confused with the federal Homestead Act of 1862, illustrated in the above stamp, that "provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms ...

The Homestead Act May 20, 1862 (U. S. Statutes at Large, ... as in other cases provided for by law: And provided, further, That in case of the death of both father and mother, ...

The state law is not to be confused with the federal Homestead Act of 1862, illustrated in the above stamp, that "provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms ...

Homestead National Historical Park. The Homestead Act of 1862 was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Abraham ...

WASHINGTON | At the end of this year in which election results reinserted immigration into the political conversation, remember that 2012 is the 150th anniversary of "the first comprehensive ...

Blake Bell, a historian at the Homestead National Monument of America, talks about immigration law in the United States and the debate surrounding the Homestead Act of 1862. The law distributed ...