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| Home·stead Act |
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1. U.S. act granting land to settlers: an act passed by the U.S. Congress in 1862, promising ownership of 160 acres of public land to a citizen who lived on and cultivated it for five years
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2. Canadian act granting land to settlers: the Dominion Lands Act, passed by the Canadian Parliament in 1872, and modeled after the U.S. Homestead Act of 1862
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