The Homestead Act was attractive to settlers, because it gave land to anyone over 21, or head of family (even women and former slaves), who applied for land, this land for a very cheap price (or no price at all) and through this it enabled easy settlement. The farmers had to then cultivate the land for a period of time, and if they did not abandon it and tended to it properly, it became their property.
The obvious answer would be business leaders. The reason why this is true is becaus business leaders were often the ones who were touting the ideas of social darwinism and how their company is better and will stomp out the smaller one in proper sociodarwinistic fashion.
The correct passage which best reflects common features of realistic fiction is:
From a window of an apartment house that upreared its form from amid squat, ignorant stables, there leaned a curious woman. Some laborers, unloading a scow at a dock at the river, paused for a moment and regarded the fight. The engineer of a passive tugboat hung lazily to a railing and watched. Over on the Island, a worm of yellow convicts came from the shadow of a building and crawled slowly along the river's bank.
(<em>Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets)</em>
Answer:
There numbers over there enemies
Explanation:
Move into very small and disgusting ghettos for later transport to death camps
