Homestead National Monument of America

Homestead National Monument of America, a unit of the National Park System, commemorates passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, which allowed any qualified person to claim up to of federally owned land in exchange for five years of residence and the cultivation and improvement of the property. The Act eventually transferred 270 million acres from public to private ownership. Wikipedia*

On the C-SPAN Networks:
Homestead National Monument of America has hosted 2 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2012 Speech.