What was the purpose of the Homestead Act?

O

O

ATo further assimilation policies by breaking up Indigenous peoples'

land for agricultural

use

BTo offer public land in the West to people who could build a home

or farm on the

land for five years

CTo set aside undesirable parcels of land that the U.S. government

could use to create reservations

DTo offer federal subsidies for land and loans to build the first

Transcontinental

Railroad