(select all that apply) select the reasons the colonists gave for not wanting to declare their independence.

a. england had agreed to address their grievances.
b. england would be difficult for the colonists to invade.
c. england would be too strong to defeat.
d. the colonies needed england to protect them.
e. the colonies could not survive economically without english subsidies.
f. the cost in human lives would be too great.

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

b.

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