Homesteading

1) Homesteading is a major theme in the settling of the American West.Write a factual essay that:(a) explains the major ideas/philosophies that led to homesteading laws and whooriginated them(b) lists how the U.S. was assembled – how was the land acquired and what did each acquisition cost?(c) lists and briefly discusses three major homesteading laws/bills that disposed of former Indian land and transferred them to settlers or resource developers(d) explains two myths about climate that made people believe they could farm inthe arid West