Which of the Following Statements About the Southern Homestead Act

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the Southern Homestead Act of 1866 is MOST accurate?

A) The act distributed public lands exclusively to freedpeople.
B) Black families gained the most land through the act in states with the largest black populations.
C) Although the act opened lands to both whites and blacks,it was blacks who benefitted the most.
D) Thanks in part to the act,roughly 6% of all freed families owned their own land by the mid-1870s.