The options of the question are:
A. Encouraging homesteaders to take over the American Indians’ farms.
B. Creating a drain on the food, clothing, and shelter of American Indians.
c. Making new technologies available to American Indians.
d. Bringing new schools to American Indian settlements.
The correct answer is B) creating a drain on the food, clothing, and shelter of American Indians.
<em>The Homestead Act greatly impacted the American Indians of the Great Plains by creating a drain on the food, clothing, and shelter of American Indians.
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The Homestead Act of May 20, 1862, created a program of public land grants for the small farmers in America. The Homestead Act allowed the people of the U.S. to claim up to 160 free acres of federal land in the western part of the country. The freed slaves could claim for a piece of land in that territory. In the end, almost 1.6 million of individual claims were approved.
