1. what were european explorers looking for when they first arrived in the americas?
o gold
o silver
slaves
o trade routes to asia

answer: they were looking for trade routes to

asia

explanation:

a) the colonists began to see themselves as different from people in britain.

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