| 单词 | homestead act |
| 释义 | Homestead Actnouna special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms. Words nearby Homestead Acthome staging, homestall, home stand, homestay, homestead, Homestead Act, homesteader, homesteading, homestead law, home straight, homestretch Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for Homestead ActHomestead Act nounan act passed by the US Congress in 1862 making available to settlers 160-acre tracts of public land for cultivation (in Canada) a similar act passed by the Canadian Parliament in 1872 Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for Homestead ActHomestead Act A law passed in the 1860s that offered up to 160 acres of public land to any head of a family who paid a registration fee, lived on the land for five years, and cultivated it or built on it. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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