In what way are the homestead act and the dawes act similar? a. both acts benefited native americans b. both acts distributed western lands to individuals. c. neither act allowed single men to own land. d. neither act resulted in more western settlements.

B. Both acts distributed western lands to individuals. The Homestead Act, passed during the Civil War, opened western territory to individual farmers. The land was provided cheaply but with the requirement that is must be for an individual and they had to stay on the land for a set number of years. The Dawes Act distributed reservation land to Indians willing to individually farm the land but it was meant to shape Indians in the image of white men and their ways of farming.