During the golden age, what allowed shops to conduct business using a form of credit similar to modern day checks?
a. a publication law passed by the empire's government
b. the arrival of scholars who could teach the method
c. the discovery of the chinese paper making
d. the introduction of a copying technique using ink

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