Total cost of a 160 acre claim was ?

On January 1, 1863, Daniel Freeman made the first claim under the Act, which gave citizens or future citizens up to 160 acres of public land .

Explanation:

The only money necessary was a $18 application fee, but the optimistic settlers paid a different price via sacrifice and hard labor. Daniel Freeman, the first Union Army scout, was the first to take use of the Homestead Act's provisions.

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