Answer is 10%.
About 270 million acres of public land was given away for free to Homesteaders, people seeking to settle out west under the Homestead Act. This constituted about 10% of the US. The first of the acts was passed in 1862, and the second in 1866.
Slavery would've been outlawed.
I'm sure it's the Tropical forest.
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Cecily Gyles was born on the year of 1928
