大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 homestead act
释义:
homestead act (美)宅地法
例句:
Could we just wait until he's done with the homestead act chapter?
能等到他讲完宅地法那章再走吗?
The Homestead Act of 1862 is no longer in effect, but free land is still available out there in the great wide open (often literally in the great wide open).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)。
In eighteen sixty-two, Congress had passed the Homestead Act.
Now, Congress is considering a New Homestead Act that would attempt to repopulate dying towns.
The government initially tried to evict them, but eventually they gave up and passed the Homestead Act to formalize the process.
Others worry that the New Homestead Act will ultimately be no more successful than the original, which had a failure rate of 60 percent.
Congress finally acknowledged defeat in 1862 with the passage of the Homestead Act, which gave settlers free federal land if they cultivated it for five years.
It's been 140 years since the Homestead Act sent waves of settlers across the Great Plains, staking claim to parcels of land 160 acres in size.
The comparatively tiny Lincoln Administration managed to win the Civil War, open up the Great Plains through the Homestead Act, and kick off construction of the transcontinental railroad.
Lincoln's Homestead Act stands out as a prime example.
Mr Dorgan is the chief author of the New Homestead Act, which would provide a host of incentives to people who settle in counties that have lost more than 10% of their population in the past 20 years.
Lincolns motive in favoring the Homestead Act and the patent clause (and both together) was to prevent the West from being dominated by large estates and great landowners, so that it might become a society of many freemen and many practical, inventive minds.
This has led some locals to consider a modern version of an old idea, the Homestead Act of 1862, which helped to populate the Plains by giving settlers up to 640 acres of land in exchange for a commitment to stay for five years.
The famous Homestead Act of 1862, whereby an American could have free title to 160 acres of land in the West if he lived on and developed it, grew out of the fact that countless Americans were already occupying federal lands in violation of federal law.