This is an excerpt from an application for land filed with the federal government in 1868.
Daniel Freeman…is the head of a family consisting of wife and two children and is a citizen of the United States; that he is an inhabitant of…section No. 26 in Township No. 4 N of Range No. 5E and that no other person resided upon the said land…. That the said Daniel Freeman entered upon…and built a house…and has lived in the said house and made it his exclusive home from the 1st day of January 1863 to the present time, and that he has since said settlement ploughed, fenced, and cultivated about 35 acres of said land, and has made the following improvements thereon, to it: built a stable, a sheep shed 100 feet long, a corn crib, and has 40 apple and about 400 peach trees set out.
This application was the result of which legislation?
A. Chinese Exclusion Act
B. Dawes Act
C. Homestead Act
D. Pacific Railway Act