AP Success - AP US History: The Homestead Act & Western Settlement
Question 1
The claimant had to be a former Confederate soldier seeking reconciliation.
The claimant needed to pay a large sum upfront to secure the land.
The claimant was required to live on and improve the land by cultivating it.
The claimant was obligated to establish a mining operation on the land.
Question 2
Individuals who had borne arms against the U.S. government.
People who were not citizens of the United States.
Union soldiers who had served in the Civil War.
Adult citizens who had previously owned land.
Question 3
They received the land for free without any registration fee.
They were granted double the amount of land compared to other claimants.
They were exempt from the requirement to improve the land.
They could deduct the time they had served from the residency requirements.
Question 4
To provide land for the construction of transcontinental railroads.
To encourage settlement and cultivation of government land.
To redistribute land from wealthy landowners to poorer citizens.
To create reservations for Native American tribes.
Question 5
Claimants could receive title by serving in the U.S. military for at least one year.
Claimants could acquire title after a six-month residency and trivial improvements if they paid $1.25 per acre.
Claimants could bypass the residency by planting a specific quota of trees on the land.
Claimants could substitute the residency requirement with a recommendation from a state governor.
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