Why did the government divide land on the frontier into sections following the passage of the Homestead Act?

The government surveyed and divided frontier land into sections so that parcels could be identified and distributed in an orderly way to settlers. This organization made it clear where one piece of land ended and another began; the purpose was not specifically to tell people where to build or to make the land easier to farm. The best answer is “to break the land into organized pieces.”

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