Suppose you are an American colonist living at a time where change is happening quickly and the foundations of the United States are beginning to emerge. Write a three-paragraph journal entry discussing the following.

i believe the answer is a

new evidence is discovered.

oversights and errors are corrected,

new technology is applied to evidence.

did you check the study guide?

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