《宅地法》与美国西部农业开发

the Homestead Act and the Agricutural Development of the West

1862年《宅地法》体现了无偿分配西部国有土地的原则,对于加速美国西部开发,促进美国农业资本主义道路的发展,具有深远的意义。本文论述《宅地法》对于促进西部开发,促使美国资本主义道路的实现产生的历史作用。

the Homestead Act issued in 1862 embodied the principle of the free distribution of national land in the west It is of great significance to speed up the development of the west of America and to promote the development of American capitalist agriculture This paper has stated the historic functions of the Law which guaranteed the federal government to win the Civil War, especially of accelerating the development of the West, and the realization of American capitalism