Hi!
I think that the question had options, and that those were the options:
1)Nobody controls the means of production.
2)Workers control the means of production.
3)Business owners control the means of production.
4)The government controls the means of production.
The correct answer is that Business owners control the means of production- they can decide which way of producing is the most profitable based on their expertise and demand!
I will assume you mean the Homestead Act of 1862, which was the first and most iconic one. In that case, the requirements were that the homesteader, the one filing the claim, be either the head of the household OR twenty-one years old, they had to live only on the designated land, build a home, improve it, and farm the land for five years, and, finally, they had to be a United States citizen that had never taken up arms against America.
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