WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Question
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Which of these laws helped promote western settlement by offering free land following the Civil War?
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Dawes General Allotment Act
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Homestead Act
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Sherman Silver Purchase Act
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Interstate Commerce Act
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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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