French fur traders were settling river and dutch fur traders were settling along river in the 17th century in north america.

French fur traders were settling along the St Lawrence River (because this was the safest place and it is where they founded Québéc) and dutch fur traders were settling along the Hudson River (not as safe, many casualties because the English traders came and used firearms against them) in the 17th century in north america.

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