USA CITIZENSHIP TEST
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Question
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What did the Homestead Act of 1861 allow settlers to do?
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Go to war with Native Americans
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Own the land that they settled on after 5 years
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Establish the sharecropping system
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Make peace with the Native Americans
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -To help develop the American West and spur economic growth, Congress passed the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. The act distributed millions of acres of western land to individual settlers.
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