alleryStart learning →What did the Homestead Act of 1862 grant?
ACheap loans of 64 dollars to settlers
BFree rail passes to western settlers
CFree seed corn to every plains settler
DFree farms of 64 hectares to settlers
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Correct answer: D. Free farms of 64 hectares to settlers
1. 1. The grant is a farm of 64 hectares, given free.
2. 2. It went to citizens on condition that they occupied and improved the land.
3. 3. By 1880 the act had placed nearly 22,400,000 hectares into private hands.
4. 4. Loans, rail passes and seed are never part of the grant described.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section OPPORTUNITIES OPEN IN THE WEST_
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