One Problem with the Homestead Act Was That

question 50

Multiple Choice

One problem with the Homestead Act was that

• A) public land was sold for revenue.
• B) 160 acres were inadequate for productive farming on the rain-scarce Great Plains.
• C) midwestern farmers had to give up raising livestock because of stiff competition with the West.
• D) the railroads purchased most of this land.
• E) it required farmers to actually live on the land for five years.

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