Question

What specific groups of people do you think took advantage of the Homestead Act after the Civil War?

Answer 1

Former slaves took advantage of this Act because it would allow them to own land to grow food and live, without being property to their masters

Answer 2

The Homestead Act of 1862 gave free land to Americans willing to improve it, regardless of former slaves, became known as exodusters, a name which took inspiration from the biblical.