Explain how Plessy v. Fergusson is an example of how many states and even the federal government twisted the 14th Amendment in order to keep minorities from receiving equal rights.

It made racial segregation legal in the United States.

Explanation:

A shoemaker of New Orleans, Homer Plessy, purchased a rail ticket On June 7, 1892, and sat in a  train reserved for people from the white race. The State Law of Louisiana allowed separate railway cars for African Americans and Caucasians. The case, which concluded with a landmark decision of the Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson, decided that the policy of "separate but equal" was legitimate and that states could enact legislation requiring racial segregation. This case has established segregation practices popular in public buildings, including trains, theaters, hotels, restaurants, washrooms, and public toilets.

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