Answer:
The correct answer is A, as the statement is true. The Homestead Act offered land in the West to any citizen willing to develop it.
Explanation:
Homestead Act was a law of 1862 passed by the United States Congress granting to every citizen, or any other person intending to take American citizenship, 160 acres (about 65 hectares) of uninhabited lands belonging to the federal government and then the possibility of buying them at nominal value after five years of residence.
Settlers using it were obliged to serve in the North Army during the Civil War, which was the main purpose of the act. A side objective of the act was to be the settlement of the western part of the country, US territorial expansion, assimilation of indigenous tribes, and the development of farming.
