How the northwest territory would have been settled if the grid system for surveying and marketing the lands had not been used.

There was an old system based on metes and bounds (which used natural markers like trees and rivers to define property). This older system was time consuming, required the surveyor’s physical presence in a sometimes dangerous landscape, and often led to land disputes as natural markers were altered or disappeared.

you didn't give any answers to choose from so i can't with this but, i do know something that the mexican government would be worried about and that is the wall that donald trump is currently trying to get up.

i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years