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Congress passed the Southern Homestead Act in 1866. This act was meant to
A)
incorporate Southerners back into the United States.
B)
encourage Americans to settle west of the Mississippi River.
C)
take land from former Confederate officers and give it to poor whites.
aside over 40 million acres of land in Southern states for freed blacks.