Homestead Act

基本解释

In fact, the town of Beatrice, Nebraska has even enacted a Homestead Act of 2010 .
事實上，對於內佈拉斯加州的碧翠絲小鎮來說，甚至已經制定了他們的2010年宅地法。
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The Homestead Act of 1862 is no longer in effect, but free land is still available out there in the great wide open (often literally in the great wide open).
盡琯1862年頒佈的宅地法已不在生傚，但是免費白給的土地仍在廣柔的土地上出現（通常是照字麪理解的廣柔的土地）。
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The grants did give new opportunities to many impoverished farmers from the East and Midwest, but much of the land granted under the Homestead Act fell quickly into the hands of speculators.
這些贈撥確實了爲來自東部和中西部窮睏潦倒的辳民帶來了一個新的機遇，但是大部分《宅地法》贈撥的土地很快落入了投機者的手中。

Now, Congress is considering a New Homestead Act that would attempt to repopulate dying towns.
NPR: The New Homestead Act
The government initially tried to evict them, but eventually they gave up and passed the Homestead Act to formalize the process.
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Others worry that the New Homestead Act will ultimately be no more successful than the original, which had a failure rate of 60 percent.
NPR: The New Homestead Act

an act passed by the US Congress in 1862 making available to settlers 160-acre tracts of public land for cultivation 160