Why did many farmers struggle to make the mortgage payments on their farms? a) The banking industry targeted farmers unfairly.

b) Unpredictable crop yields resulted in unsteady income.

c) The railroads owned the banks.

d) They had a lack of labor to work their farms properly.

B)  Unpredictable crop yields resulted in unsteady income.

Explanation:

b) they want the land taken away from the wealthy landowners and given to peasants.

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