Who is excluded from the Homestead Act and why?

Confederates, to ensure that the support for the confederates were reduced.

Explanation:

The Homestead Act was created in 1862 to provide both Adult citizens or intended adult citizens who never rise to fight against the government with 160 acres of land.

Since the confederates forces rose against the government during the civil war in 1861, they're excluded from this act.

This made a lot of southern people lost support for the confederates and choose to sided with the union in order to obtain some pieces of those lands.

b. after i get up in the morning,

explanation:

after is a subordinating conjunction that introduces a time clause. time clauses are dependent clauses used to indicate when something happened.

the clause "after i get up in the morning" tells when the action in the main clause (drinking a cup of coffee) happens:

"after i get up in the morning, i drink a cup of coffee." it is the most logical choice of all.

its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with, and alleviate the poverty of, their low-income neighbors.