Land Distribution and the Expansion of the American Landscape

Stephanie A. Mercier and Steve A. Halbrook ()
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Stephanie A. Mercier: Farm Journal Foundation
Steve A. Halbrook: University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Chapter Chapter 3 in Agricultural Policy of the United States, 2020, pp 25-35 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Access to land and land ownership became a critical element in the success of the early European settlements of North America. This chapter explores Native American concepts of land ownership, and the feudal origins of European ideas of land ownership and how that affected the development of the US land tenure system in the colonial era. It also discusses the post-revolutionary policy decisions that shaped the subsequent pattern of settlement and land ownership, and the territorial expansion of the United States across North America.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36452-6_3

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