Why is there such a contrast between the expressions on the faces of the two figures?

a. because the man is afraid of death, but death is happy to have another victim

b. because the man is resisting death, who is struggling to bring him along

c. because death is sad to see a frightened man die in his prime

d. because death feels good at having so many souls to take with him

A. because the man is afraid of death, but Death is happy to have another victim

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