While it's not realistic, I guarantee that if you initiated the homestead act again in the US, people would do it. Free land and basically full autonomy? I'm 10

While it's not realistic, I guarantee that if you initiated the homestead act again in the US, people would do it. Free land and basically full autonomy? I'm 100% certain there is a sizeable chunk of those types in the US and Canada that would make that trade. The reason the homestead act died was cause businesses lobbied the government to get rid of it so as not to give lower income types a choice. They had to work in their factories to survive.