In your own words, describe what the Homestead Act of 1862 does.

the homestead act of 1862 provides U.S. citizens a chance to buy public domain/ government land to help settle and migrate people to the american west.

b: to eliminate competition from other farmers

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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