According to the mandate of heaven, a ruler
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The Zhou created the mandate of heaven the idea that there could only be one legitimate ruler of China at a time, and that this ruler had the blessing of the gods. they use this mandate to justify their overthrow of the shang, and their subsequent rule.

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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