The purpose of the homestead act was to
a.
give anglo americans more land than mexican texans.
b.
protect a family's home, tools, and land from being taken by immigrants.
c.
protect a family's home, tools, and land from being seized if debts were unpaid.
d.
give land freely to anyone who wanted it.

Signed into law in May 1862, the Homestead Act opened up settlement in the western United States, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land.

Because he is a selfish dude

Ongoing civil wars western roman empire finally collapsed476 c.e. romulus, the last of theroman  emperors in  the west, was overthrown by the germanic leader odoacer, who became the first barbarian to rule in rome. the order that the  roman empire  had brought towestern  europe for 1000 years was no more.