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This Act "parceled out millions of acres of land to settlers. All US citizens, including women, African Americans, freed slaves, and immigrants, were eligible to apply to the federal government for a “homestead,” or 160-acre plot of land."
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"African American migrants who left the South after the Civil War to settle in the states of Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma."
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"Authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots."
Over 90 million acres of land were stripped from Native Indians and sold to non-natives.
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