Answer:
The correct answer is D. It allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.
Explanation:
The homestead act was necessary in the government's vision of Manifest Destiny and to expand the country westwards into new territory
As most of the country's wealth and population was in the north-east, it was difficult to promote the newly acquired territories for people to settle in. Without any settlers, there would be no economic activity in the region. Without economic activity, the regions would not provide any significant benefit.
Hence, the Homestead Act gave any American citizen the right to 160 Acres of land to farm and after 5 years, they would own the land. Unfortunately, the act did not bring in the development the government was hoping for as most of this new land make in the hands of Property Speculators.
However, that was not the initial intention which is why option C is wrong.
It is true that the African families
tended to be matrilineal, in contrast to the European tradition. Since the
beginning of time, African societies have been inherently matrilineal in
orientation. Also, since hunting
expeditions gave control of food production to men, European societies
suppressed a matrilineal culture.
Corroborating this enduring social system that has defied the
most impossible odds are the queens and powerful figures in their
rights, such as the Rain Queen Modjaji, Queen Nerfetiti of Egypt, Queen Makeda
of Ethiopia, Queen Candace Amanirena of Nubia, Queen Manthatisi of South
Africa. The introduction of Islam, Christianity, and the colonial
conquest which imposed patriarchal rule changed this socio-cultural construct.
Society would fall because then we would not have anything to base it all on. Economy would also fall
The answer is <span>A. Many independence movements were fed by Creole elites' resentment at being considered inferior to peninsulares.</span>