Ther was no specific amount of acreage promised to Abram (Abraham) by God, but it was enough to have found a country. This covenant was for the land between the Nile river in Africa and the Euphrates river in what is now modern day Iraq.
50 acres
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Homestead Act
they weren't promised land as much as they were promised gold. the land supply was seen as unlimited
General Butler
Newly freed blacks from the South. Sadly, the promise was never fulfilled.
It was a system to attract England citizens to move to the Americas because it promised 50 acres of land and 50 acres for their slaves. Therefore, it developed thriving British colonies.
They migrated because the west was "new," and the government had promised them 40 acres and a mule. They had heard of the California Gold Rush, and they wanted a piece of the action.
Not sure why this question is in the Bible area, but it was the Dawes Act of 1887 that gave Native Americans 160 acres of land.
To bring settlers to the colony, lord Baltimore, promised 100 acres to each male settler, 100 for his wife,100 for each servant,and 50 for each of his children.
160 acres of free land to farm
They migrated because the west was "new," and the government had promised them 40 acres and a mule. They had heard of the California Gold Rush, and they wanted a piece of the action.