Answer: D
Step-by-step explanation:
The Homestead Act increased the number of people in the western United States. Most Native Americans watched the arrival of homesteaders with unease. As more settlers arrived, they found themselves pushed farther from their homelands or crowded onto reservations.
(from National Park Service on the Trail of tears and Homestead act of 1862)
The Homestead act was created to move the Natives away from the colonies, so to the west.
A is wrong because it just created more fighting
B is wrong because the territory still belonged to the Americans it was just being set aside for them in the homestead act
C. Is wrong because that was African Americans.