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ericka1

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One major problem with the Homestead Act was that
 
  a. the government continued to try to maximize its revenue from public lands.
  b. 160 acres were inadequate for productive farming on the rain-scarce Great Plains.
  c. midwestern farmers had to give up raising livestock because of stiff competition with the West.
  d. most homesteaders knew little or nothing about farming in the West.
  e. it took several years to earn a profit from farming a homestead.

Question 2

The two most internationally recognized American writers in the 1820s were
 
  a. Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper.
  b. Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire.
  c. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson.
  d. Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  e. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau.



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

a



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