Railroads in the South were few before the Civil War. By the time it was over, most were destroyed. What does this map demonstrate?

Select one:
a. railway building was a priority in the South during and after Reconstruction
b. little progress was made in repairing the structural damage of the Civil War
c. more people focused on building new factories over repairing railroad lines
d. the only new railroads built were those connecting the North to the South

the answer is suffrage

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