homesteading
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- noun
- /ˈhoʊmˌstɛdɪŋ/
- Archaic
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colonización
- In the 19th century, many families participated in homesteading to claim land offered by the government.
- homesteading act
Examples
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Most of the eastern rainforest had been legally declared public land (open for homesteading and colonization) since at least the 1930s.
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Those who already have farming or ranching skills, but no land of their own, could participate in new government-supported "homesteading" programs.
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As the best land was taken, the remaining land available for homesteading was increasingly marginal.
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The federal government opened former tribal lands for homesteading, and thousands of families rushed to stake their claims on new land.
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Well, they said they were for high tariffs, free homesteads and the rights of immigrants.
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This was the homesteading era, and both the U.S. government and the nation's new railroads encouraged Europeans and Americans to set down new stakes in the West.
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In 1973, the government issued a stronger agrarian reform law followed by a new homesteading act in 1978, which included additional inducements for settlers.
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The second upswing began in the early 1900s when new homesteading laws allowed settlers up to 640 acres of free federal land.
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In the 1980s, after the City of Decatur exited the Urban Homesteading program, the area now known as Oakhurst was not a cohesive neighborhood.
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As an aside, let me point out that we would not have the urban problems we have, and the attendant political problems of corrupt Dem urban fiefdoms, if the country opened up its public lands for homesteading.
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How Legal
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Morphology
Etymology
Homesteading comes from homestead ( home + stead 'place'), and in the 1800s the word was used when governments gave land to people who would move there and farm. That's why homesteading also means the process of claiming, settling, and farming land to gain ownership.