Originally, the allotment system was a name for a system used to pay servants of the state, like officers and clergy.

At the same time, the new allotment system remained in use up until 1901, when mandatory conscription, with 8-9 months of military service, was introduced.

This system was later expanded as the Swedish allotment system.

Those names were originally assigned to soldiers under the military allotment system in effect from the 16th century.

In the 19th and early 20th century, the allotment system supplied much of the fresh vegetables eaten by the poor.

After 1833, they were relocated to Kansas, where they lost most of their land due to the allotment system.

The soldier huts around the country were the most visible part of the new Swedish allotment system.

He also favored a move to the allotment system, under which individual Native Americans, rather than tribes, would own land.

As a colonel in the 1680s Stålhammar introduced the allotment system at his regiment.

Under the allotment system, tribal lands left over would be surveyed for settlement by non-Indians.