Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Development of the Plains.
A law that offered of free public land to settlers who improved it over five years.
Homestead Act (1862) appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for The American West, especially Development of the Plains and Development of Settlement.
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