After passing the homestead act, why were the european immigrants attracted to the offer of free land?

Signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 during the Civil War, the Homestead Act was the most comprehensive land distribution bill passed in the nineteenth century. Prior to the act, the U.S. government auctioned or sold public land in large lots that ordinary citizens could not afford to buy or manage. The Homestead Act ambitiously shifted land ownership and development towards average American citizens.

answer: andrew johnson

17th u.s. president

in what way were president abraham lincoln's and president andrew johnson's reconstruction plans similar? a)both reserved seats in the congress for former confederate war leaders. b)both granted voting rights to the newly freed slaves. d) both required southerners to support the thirteenth amendment to abolish

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