Armed Occupation Act

The Florida Armed Occupation Act of 1842 () was passed as an incentive to populate Florida.
The Act granted 160 acres (0.6 km²) of unsettled land south of the line separating townships 9 and 10 South
(an east–west line about three miles (5 km) north of Palatka and about ten miles (16 km) south of Newnansville) to any head of a family as long he satisfied the following conditions:
The total land to be granted should not be more than 200,000 acres (800 km²) under the act.
Literature.
James W. Covington, “The Armed Occupation Act of 1842.” "Florida Historical Quarterly" 40, no. 1 (1961): 41–52.
Laurel Clark Shire, "The Threshold of Manifest Destiny: Gender and National Expansion in Florida". Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Laurel Clark Shire, “Turning Sufferers into Settlers: Gender, Welfare, and National Expansion in Frontier Florida.” "Journal of the Early Republic" 33, no. 3 (2013): 489–521.
Joe Knetsch and Paul S. George, “A Problematical Law: The Armed Occupation Act of 1842 and Its Impact on Southeast Florida.” "Tequesta" 53 (1993): 63–80.
Joe Knetsch and Paul S. George, “Staking a Claim in Early Miami.” "South Florida History Magazine", no. 1 (Winter 1990): 18–20.
Michael E. Welsh, “Legislating a Homestead Bill: Thomas Hart Benton and the Second Seminole War.” "Florida Historical Quarterly" 57, no. 2 (1978): 157–72.
Julius Wilm, "Settlers as Conquerors: Free Land Policy in Antebellum America". Stuttgart, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018.