Read the following tegistative act to answer questions
31,32, and 33.
Homestead Act 1863
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled, That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at
the age of twenty -one years, and is a citizen of the United Staes, or who shall have filed his
declaration of intention to become such, as required by the naturalization laws of the
Untied States, and who has never borne arms against the United States government or
given aid and comfort to its enemies, shall,from and after the first January, eighteen
hundred and sixty-three, be entitled to enter one quarter section or a less quantity of
unappropriated public lands upon which said person may have filed a preemption claim,
or which may, at the time the application is made, be subject to preemption at one dollar
and twenty-five cents or less, per acre or eighty acres or less of such unappropriated
lands, at two dollars and fifty cents per acre, to be located in a body, in conformity to the
legal subdivisions of the public lands, and after the same shall have been surveyed:
Provided, That any person owning and residing on land may, under the provisions of this
act, enter other land lying contiguous (next to) to his or her said land, which shall not,with
the land so already owned and occupied, exceed in the aggregate one hundred and sixty
acres.
31. In order to take advantage of the Homestead Act one
A. had to be over 19, a citizen and male
B. must be a citizen, over 21 and female
C. a minimum of 21, a citizen and not an enemy of the nation
D. a minimum of 21, a citizen and did not own a gun
32. The purpose of the Homestead Act was to
A. give citizens a chance at a better life
B. lower the population in the cities
C. create more farms
D. encourage settlement of the west
33. The maximum allocation of land for homesteaders was
A. eighty acres
B. one hundred eighty acres
C. one quarter section
