- a special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
- an act passed by the US Congress in 1862 making available to settlers 160-acre tracts of public land for cultivation
- (in Canada) a similar act passed by the Canadian Parliament in 1872
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