The Homestead Act encouraged the settlement of the West because it provided 1. land to railroad companies to build the Transcontinental Railroad
2. forty acres and a mule to formerly enslaved people
3. land to people who would live and farm on it for at least five years
4. mining claims for prospectors seeking gold and silver

Which of the following statements about the fugitive slave act of 1850 is not accurate. a. marshals who refused to arrest a suspected fugitive could be fined $1,000. b. slave owners had to present evidence that an african american in the north was a fugitive slave. c. any person who provided food or shelter to a fugitive slave could be find $1000 and placed in jail for six months. d. it required all federal marshals to arrest any african-american suspected of being a runaway slave.