Homestead Act was the bill passed by the Congress in 1862 gave 160 acres of public land to anyone willing to settle it. The correct option among all the options given in the question is option "C".
<span>The Homestead Acts consisted
of numerous Federal laws of United States of America that gave the applicants
ownership of lands at minimal or no cost at all. The people who never took up
arms against the government of united states were eligible as applicants. </span>
The correct answer here is that they enacted policies that would benefit the merchants.
In mercantilism, the point was to take all the raw materials from the colonies for the mainland, for example the Great Britain. Those materials would be used to create goods which would then be sent and sold back to the colonies. That task fell to merchants who used the deals with the government to set their shop in the colonies and sell their goods. In return they paid for the army.
The person being described in the statement above is Lionel Hampton. He was known to be an American percussionist,
actor, band leader and as well as a jazz vibraphonist in which he had known to
worked with Benny Goodman and as well as other people such as Teddy Wilson,
Buddy Rich, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker and Quincy Jones.
