What exactly did the homestead act of 1862 do? a. it allowed the government to give everyone in the united states five hundred acres of western land. b. it allowed the government to lower the price of western lands significantly below market value. c. it allowed the government to sell millions of acres of undeveloped western land to speculators. d. it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

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

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i think it’s will be a yes