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 ...

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

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.

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

The Homestead Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in May of 1862. Like its predecessor, the Preemption Act of 1841, part of its aim was to get small farmers ...

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 ...

The act was part of a larger set of laws passed from 1820 to 1916 that encouraged people to settle the land out here. ... This year recognizes the 150th anniversary of the 1862 Homestead Act.

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 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 ...

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 ...