What was the name of the 1862 law that granted 160 acres of public land to any adult citizen willing to settle and cultivate it for five years, accelerating westward expansion?

• A Morrill Act
• B Dawes Act
• C Homestead Act ✓
• D Timber Culture Act

The Homestead Act distributed 270 million acres ΓÇö about 10 percent of the land area ΓÇö to 1.6 million homesteaders, though speculators and railroads acquired far more.