Multiple Choice
The Homestead Act:
A) promised freedom from taxation for middle-class landholders in the West.
B) guaranteed free acres of land to citizens who farmed the land for five years.
C) actually had the effect of slowing white settlement in the West.
D) gave away far more land to common people than had been given to railway companies.
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