A feudal system is best describe as a form of government with a:
A. Single, all-powerful ruler.
B. legislature elected by the people.
C. ruler who is also a religious authority.
D. Decentralized authority of many different rulers.

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