Homesteaders

What is the Homestead Act?

Definition: A law that gave free farmland to any male or widow who agreed to work it for five years. Sentence: Lots of the people came to the United States because of the Homestead Act, and the Homestead Act was a law that gave free farmland to any male or widow who agreed to work it for five years.

Who were homesteaders?

Definition: A person who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act of 1862. Sentence: Many homesteaders that came to claim land were also immigrants, and a homesteader was a person who claimed land on the Great Plains.

Who were exodusters?

Definition: The term describing one of the many African-Americans from the South who went to Kansas in the 1860s. Sentence: One of the towns that exodusters went to was Nicodemus, and an exoduster was the term describing one of the many African-Americans from the South who went to Kansas in the 1860s.