The Homestead Act
A) offered 160 acres of land to any settler who would pay a $10 registration fee, live on the land for five years, and cultivate it.
B) offered 40 acres and a mule to former slaves who relocated to the frontier after the Civil War.
C) granted ex-soldiers from Homestead, Pennsylvania, a parcel of western land as payment for service during the Civil War.
D) was devised by Massachusetts senator Henry Homestead to break up Indian reservations and provide 160 acres of land to Indians for farming.
E) created reservations to which Indians were forced to move.
A
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What will be an ideal response?
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