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Why did Congress pass the Homestead Act? Check all of the boxes that apply. to limit opportunities to access natural resources to open up new lands to farmers to encourage the westward expansion of the United States

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To open up new lands to farmers

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to encourage westward expansion of the United States

Congress passed the Homestead act to open up new lands to farmers and to encourage the westward expansion of the United States.

What is a Homestead Act?    

   

A Homestead Act is passed by congress in 1862 that provides 160 acres of free land to the head of the households of the U.S.citizen.

For developing the west and boosting the economic growth, this act has been passed to provide federal land to the person who agrees to farm the land.

Thus, this helps in providing land to small farmers and encourages the expansion of the United States.

         

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