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Key Land-Use Acts

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Ordinance Act of 1785 Passed under the Articles of Confederation. It laid out the process by which lands west of the Appalachian Mountains were to be surveyed and sold. The method of creating townships and sections within townships was used for all U.S. land after 1785.
The Homestead Act of 1862 To develop the American West and spur economic growth, Congress passed the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. The act distributed millions of acres of western land to individual settlers.
The Morrill Act of 1862 First proposed when Morrill was serving in the House of Representatives, the Morrill Land Grant College Act of 1862 set aside federal lands to create colleges to “benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts.”
The General Land Law Revision Act of 1891 AKA the Creative Act of 1891, provided for the setting aside of forest reserves. The forest reserves, and later the national forests, were proclaimed as soon as they had been surveyed.
The New York State Tenement House Act of 1901 AKA the "New Tenement Law," was a housing reform law aimed at improving living conditions in New York's tenement buildings
Standard State Zoning Enabling Act of 1924 A U.S. Department of Commerce committee issued the third draft of the Standard State Zoning Enabling Act, a model law developed to help states create zoning restrictions in their jurisdictions
A Standard City Planning Enabling Act of 1927 help states understand the organization and powers of city and regional planning commissions, the making of city and regional plans, and controlling the layout of new subdivisions
National Housing Act of 1934 President Franklin Roosevelt signed the National Housing Act into law. The law created the Federal Housing Administration and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
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