be able to live on and improve the land for at least five years
Explanation:
The Homestead Acts had few requirements for its qualifying. The first one is that the homesteader had to be the head of the house or he will be at least twenty-one years old. They had to live on the designated land, build its home, make improvements in it, and farm the land for a minimum of five years. If all these requirements are present in the person so he would qualify for Homestead Acts.
Farming became unsustainable. Eventually drought followed resulting in scarcley any food available for anybody. People lost jobs and the economy crashed.
