Under the homestead act of 1862 what group of people made up ¼ (one quarter) of the migrants who moved west to grab land?

I think it was German immigrants who fled from war in Europe and were generally farmers.

even though you have attached neither the chart nor the generalizations, i have located them online. the right answer is d, since they are asking you about a generalization. you can only infer from the chart that between 2008 and 2009 the number of employed workers decreased significantly (from over 115 millions to 107 millions approximately), which signals some type of economic crisis.