What effect did the embargo act have on the american economy?
a) it almost destroyed the american economy.
b) it had little effect on the american economy.
c) the american economy did very well.
d) the american economy was not affected.

d

explanation:

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