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The United States government passed The Homestead Act because they were hoping even more settlers would come to the western territories. True or false
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The United States government passed The Homestead Act because they were hoping even more settlers would come to the western territories.

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True in order to get a longer population and more money.
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To help develop the American West and spur economic growth, Congress passed the Homestead Act of 1862, which provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land. The act distributed millions of acres of western land to individual settlers.

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