Why did austria-hungary annex bosnia and herzegovina?

to seize territory from the declining Ottoman Empire

Explanation:

Choices are:

to create a larger divide between France and Russia

to take advantage of trade routes on the Adriatic Sea

to prevent Russia from taking Ottoman Empire territory

to seize territory from the declining Ottoman Empire

b. parliament was weaker than the monarchy.

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