Their backs had been made familiar with the bloody lash, so that they had become callous; mine was yet tender; for while at Baltimore I got few whippings. . . . —Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Which antonym helped you determine the meaning of callous?

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

(d). gave voting rights to free african americans and white women.

a because the britsh thought the ameracans were trators so a