Multiple Choice. Read the excerpt from an important US law, then answer the question that follows. [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) What did the passage of this legislation lead to? (1 point) Responses expanded trade with the nations of Europe expanded trade with the nations of Europe the displacement of American Indians from their lands the displacement of American Indians from their lands massive overcrowding in major cities in the Northeast massive overcrowding in major cities in the Northeast the rapid industrialization of southern states

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The passage of the Homestead Act (1862) led to the displacement of American Indians from their lands. This legislation encouraged westward expansion by providing land to settlers, which ultimately resulted in Native American tribes being pushed off their ancestral territories.