Homestead Act

基本解释

In fact, the town of Beatrice, Nebraska has even enacted a Homestead Act of 2010 .
事实上，对于内布拉斯加州的碧翠丝小镇来说，甚至已经制定了他们的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The Homestead Act of 1862 is no longer in effect, but free land is still available out there in the great wide open (often literally in the great wide open).
尽管1862年颁布的宅地法已不在生效，但是免费白给的土地仍在广柔的土地上出现（通常是照字面理解的广柔的土地）。
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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.
这些赠拨确实了为来自东部和中西部穷困潦倒的农民带来了一个新的机遇，但是大部分《宅地法》赠拨的土地很快落入了投机者的手中。

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