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Lesson 06.08: Module Six Assessment
Module Assignment: Module Six Assessment
Eighteen-year-old Rachel Calof moved to North Dakota with her husband to take
advantage of the Homestead Act of 1862. She happily wrote that her husband:
"was convinced that our best chance to make something of ourselves was to avail
ourselves of the offer of free land [and that homesteading] seemed a godsend to
penniless people who otherwise could not hope to buy land."
Sean McCollum, "Women on the Lone Prairie." Scholastic Update vol. 130, no. 4. (Oct.
1997): 18.

Why do you think owning property was important to Rachel and her husband