<Ul> <Li> Signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 3, 1873 </Li> </Ul> <Li> Signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 3, 1873 </Li> <P> The Timber Culture Act was a follow - up act to the Homestead Act . The Timber Culture Act was passed by Congress in 1873 . The act allowed homesteaders to get another 160 acres (65 ha) of land if they planted trees on one - fourth of the land, because the land was "almost one entire plain of grass, which is and ever must be useless to cultivating man ." (qtd. in Daily Life on the 19th Century American Frontier by Aleesha White) </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This section is a candidate to be copied to Wikisource . If the section can be edited into encyclopedic content, rather than merely a copy of the source text, please do so and remove this message . Otherwise, you can help by formatting it per the Wikisource guidelines in preparation for the duplication . </Td> </Tr> </Table>

The timber culture act gave land to settlers who