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A Dictionary of American History
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Homestead Act, Second
Homestead Act, Second (21 June 1866)
Congress extended the first Homestead Act to public lands in Ala., Miss., Ark., La., and Fla. by offering to sell 80 acres for $5 to freedmen or others who could swear they had not been rebels. The act stimulated little settlement, because little good land remained in the southern public domain and ex-slaves lacked capital to develop farms; it was repealed in 1876.
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Chicago:
Thomas L. Purvis, "Homestead Act, Second," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed July 8, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LL96PUIA4DKNGFZ.
MLA:
Purvis, Thomas L. "Homestead Act, Second." A Dictionary of American History, in A Dictionary of American History, Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell Reference, 1995, Original Sources. 8 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LL96PUIA4DKNGFZ.
Harvard:
Purvis, TL, 'Homestead Act, Second' in A Dictionary of American History. cited in 1995, A Dictionary of American History, Blackwell Reference, Cambridge, Mass.. Original Sources, retrieved 8 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=LL96PUIA4DKNGFZ.
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