INFORMATIVE/EXPLANATORY Consider the challenges and opportunities facing a fortyniner. What kinds of qualities do you think this kind of person would have to possess?

A forty niner refers to a miner or the set of people who were involved in the California Gold Rush. They experienced harsh conditions and challenges such as a hostile journey with lots of storms, lack of basic amenities such as food, clothing and proper shelter.

Due to all the challenges faced by a forty niner it is imperative to say they would have the ability to persevere, be patient, tough, rugged and experienced conditions related to it.

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