Which of the Following Statements About the Southern Homestead Act

question 31

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about the Southern Homestead Act of 1866 is MOST accurate?

• A)The act distributed public lands exclusively to freedpeople.
• B)Black families gained the most land through the act in states with the largest black populations.
• C)Although the act opened lands to both whites and blacks,it was blacks who benefitted the most.
• D)Thanks in part to the act,roughly 6% of all freed families owned their own land by the mid-1870s.

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