The Homestead Act gave 160 acres each to white settlers and immigrants

Evidence

Passed by Congress and signed by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862 (a month after the vote to compensate white enslavers), the Homestead Act provided that white men and women who were “heads of household, military veterans, and those over 21 years of age” were entitled to 160 acres of land in the West and Midwest as long as they had not “borne arms against” the federal government. White women, as long as they were unmarried, were eligible to receive land under the act. Homesteaders either had to be US citizens or white immigrants who had filed their intention to become one. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 328

Categorization

• XREF: The clause ‘a month after the vote to compensate white enslavers’ links to the compensated emancipation theme Brown develops as part of the reparations accounting case — the parallel federal giveaways to whites versus blacks. — connects to: The Homestead Act never delivered free land to ordinary settlers — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 2414