Key term for OCR GCSE History B, used in Settlement and conflict on the Plains 1861–1877.
An 1862 law that offered 160 acres of public land to settlers for a small registration fee, provided they lived on and farmed it for five years.
Homestead Act appears in OCR GCSE History B revision content for The Making of America (1789–1900), especially Settlement and conflict on the Plains 1861–1877 and Homesteaders.
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