What led to the growth of factories in england in the eighteenth century?
a. the increased size of families required people to look for alternative means of employment.
b. the rapidly increasing population created more demand for goods manufactured in factories.
c. farmers who lost their lands due to agricultural reforms were in need of work.
d. the wealthy merchant class was more confident about investing in new industries.

i think they came to washington to protest

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