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The Homestead Act of 1862 was important to the expansion of the United States because it provided 1. land for agricultural colleges 2. assistance to sharecroppers in the South 3. free land to settlers in the West 4. land grants for construction of transcontinental railroads

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2. assistance to sharecroppers in the south

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