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-Legislation that promised 160 acres in the trans-Mississippi West free to any citizen or prospective citizen who settled on the land for five years. The act spurred American settlement of the West. Altogether nearly one-tenth of the United States was granted to settlers.
A)Battle of the Little Big Horn
B)Black Hills
C)Carlisle Indian School
D)Chinese Exclusion Act
E)Comanchería
F)Comstock Lode
G)Dawes Allotment Act
H)first transcontinental railroad
I)Ghost Dance
J)Homestead Act of 1862
K)reservations
L)Wounded Knee

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The Homestead Act of 1862 is legislation that promised 160 acres in the trans-Mississippi West free to any citizen or prospective citizen who settled on the land for five years. The act spurred American settlement of the West. Altogether nearly one-tenth of the United States was granted to settlers.

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