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The Homestead Act helped to expand and develop the united states because it granted land for agriculture. it allowed people to acquire land west of the Mississippi river and to settle it. President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on May 20 ,1862
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The act contributed to the closing of the western frontier.

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