Fast who was ben franklin and how do you know?

benjamin franklin was a founding father and a polymath, inventor, scientist, printer, politician, freemason and diplomat. franklin to draft the declaration of independence and the u.s. constitution, and he negotiated the 1783 treaty of paris ending the revolutionary war   and i know this because he was very important in history

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the 22nd united states congress

i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: 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. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years