Decline and respectfully decline.
Congress passed it to encourage people to move and settle west. they promised free land, and they knew that people would rush to claim it. The 1862 Homestead Act accelerated settlement of U.S. western territory by allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land.
He is not to be trusted alone because he will fall off the wagon and do things he does not want to do.
The first revision ("Charlie is taking a dance class because he has to rather than because he enjoys it") is the correct answer :)
