WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Question
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The Homestead Act was ____
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A law moving Native Americans to Reservations
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A law offering inexpensive land to settlers moving west
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A law creating segregation in the west
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A law allowing all male citizens to vote
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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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