WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
the Dawes Act
|
|
|
the Morrill Land Grant Act
|
|
|
the Indian Removal Act
|
|
|
the Homestead Act
|
Detailed explanation-1: -The Homestead Act encouraged western migration by providing settlers with 160 acres of land in exchange for a nominal filing fee.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Each homesteader had to live on the land, build a home, make improvements and farm to get the land. The patent they received represented the culmination of hard work and determination. Nearly four million homesteaders settled land across 30 states over 123 years.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Homestead Act directly encouraged people to head west and establish farms without the use of slaves. Before the Civil War the southern states had blocked the passing of acts such as The Homestead Act because it posed a threat to the slave plantation farmers’ profits as farms expanded west and grew more crops.