The answer is C. By expanding its military and cultural influence over an entire region.
After the II war, the African Nationalism emerged late 1940s and early 1950s because three main reasons: The first one was that nearly two million African soldiers who were part of the II war (1939-1945) were discontent after coming back to the colonial states to be treated as slaves. The second reason was that Kwame Nkrumah father of the Pan Africanism, influenced the African Nationalist leaders against the colonial rules to reach freedom and finally the third reason was to maintain the unity among them after the rejection of colonies which oppressed African Nationalist.
The answer is C. The homestead act was intended to encourage the occupation and improvement of the West.
1. The steady loss of Wampanoag land to the Europeans
2. The English colonists' growing herds of cattle and their destruction of Indian crops.
3. The unequal justice that Indians received in English courts.