Answer:
A) Squatters to secure title to land they had improved.
Explanation:
Preemption is also knows as squatters rights. It was the policy by which the first settlers on the public lands were allowed to purchase the property. The squatters pressured congress to allow them to get permanent title to the land and the congress passed many temporary preemption laws in 1830's.
The eastern businessmen feared these laws as they considered that easy access to new lands would affect their labour supply. These laws failed to satisfy the settlers demands.
A compromise was drafted by Henry Clay, it allowed the squatters to buy 160 acres of surveyed public land at minimum price of 1.25 dollars per acre before it was sold at public auction.
The pre-pre-emption act remain in effect for 50 and was replaced Land Revision Act in 1891.
The details that most reveal the setting of the passage are the ruins of a great temple in the mid-city and the rats are unclean and there must have been tribe and in the heart of a ruin behind the door that still opened
Explanation:
This extract is from the passage of By the waters of Babylon and the ruins that were found at the exploration of the great city and the great temple. After the invasions there are many rats in the temple and since the place is left unclean they feed upon them and they keep multiplying
The doors are left open and there had been a great devastation and through the caves and the tunnels there were many slave who were still there. The options are grouped according to the sequence given in the book.
