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C) They saw it as an opportunity for families to own and operate farms without the use of slave labor
Explanation:
The Northern Republicans MOST LIKELY have viewed the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862 as an opportunity for families to own and operate farms without the use of slave labor.
The Homestead Act are diverse law made by the United States that gives an applicant the opportunity acquire ownership of land owns by the government. The homestead act made possible the distribution or given away of over 160 millions acres of public land free of charge to about 1.6 millions homesteaders with most of the homestead situated at the west of the Mississippi River. The total of land given away amounted to 10 percent of the entire land of the United States,
Answer:
I believe that the American citizens would be worried for one thing. The Bill of Rights contained the rights that people have as an American and if those rights were striped away from them like that, it would bring fear to Americans across the country. It's like taking away people's humanity.
