Big corporations helped to: a) lower the standard of living
b) raise the cost per unit of consumer products
c) improve the national economy
d) all of the above

i just did something on this guy a few days a go give me two minutes to find it in my notes.

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

a variant spelling of the word dote (british)