How did people feel Listening to John Lewis speech

which time period is this? or is this story fictional, i'm going to need more info to answer this question

answer-the island had airfields that the u.s. military needed.

i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years