Question

Compare and contrast the Homestead Act with the Indian Removal Act.

Answer 1

Homestead act was an act that granted anyone over the age of 21 farmland owned by the government. They paid a very small price for multiple acres.
The Indian Act, however, was an act that negotiated with Indians in the Southern US for the appropriation of heir land by the Federal Government and Relocation of their people to land east the Mississippi River. The land they would go to was Federal Land, in exchange for their land.