Read the excerpt from an important US law.
[A]ny person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, . . . shall, from and after the first January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, be entitled to enter one quarter section or a less quantity of unappropriated public lands, upon which said person may have filed a preemption claim, or which may, at the time the application is made, be subject to preemption at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less, per acre; or eighty acres or less of such unappropriated lands, at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, to be located in a body, in conformity to the legal subdivisions of the public lands[.]
— Homestead Act (1862)
The passage of this legislation led to
A.
expanded trade with the nations of Europe.
B.
the rapid industrialization of southern states.
C.
massive overcrowding in major cities in the Northeast.
D.
the displacement of American Indians from their lands.
1 answer
The correct answer is:
D. the displacement of American Indians from their lands.
The Homestead Act of 1862 promoted westward expansion and encouraged settlement of unappropriated public lands, which often led to the displacement of American Indian tribes from their ancestral lands.
