What specific groups of people do you think took advantage of the Homestead Act after the Civil War?

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Yanira · Answer 1 · 2021-12-25T07:05:47+0000

Former slaves took advantage of this Act because it would allow them to own land to grow food and live, without being property to their masters

Jim Macaulay · Answer 2 · 2021-12-30T02:08:06+0000

The Homestead Act of 1862 gave free land to Americans willing to improve it, regardless of former slaves, became known as exodusters, a name which took inspiration from the biblical.

What specific groups of people do you think took advantage of the Homestead Act after the Civil War?

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