The act was enacted to allow poor tenant farmers and sharecroppers in the South to become landowners in the Southern United States during Reconstruction. In the South, poor farmers and sharecroppers made up the majority of the population so the act sold land at a lower price to decrease poverty among the working class.Edwards, Richard. “African Americans and the Southern Homestead Act.” Great Plains Quarterly 39, no. 2 (2019): 103–30.
The act was enacted to allow poor tenant farmers and sharecroppers in the South to become landowners in the Southern United States during Reconstruction. In the South, poor farmers and sharecroppers made. up the majority of the population so the act sold land at a lower price to decrease poverty among the working class.Edwards, Richard. “African Americans and the Southern Homestead Act.” Great Plains Quarterly 39, no 2 (2019): 103–30.