Which statement best explains why people in africa wear masks? to distract animals while they are on the hunt to hide their faces from neighboring villages to protect themselves from the harsh african weather to act out different characters or spirits at events

jewish people, gypsies, and political opponents.

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