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What specific groups of people do you think took advantage of the Homestead Act after the Civil War?

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Crazybadger0412

The Homestead Act of 1862 gave free land to Americans willing to improve it, regardless of  former slaves, became known as exodusters, a name which took inspiration from the biblical.

freddyarmenta
Former slaves took advantage of this Act because it would allow them to own land to grow food and live, without being property to their masters