Timed test, about 1 hour and 20 minutes left. What caused the great economic inequality between the rich and poor during the Progressive Era?

People who remained on farms were stuck in poverty.
Urban factory workers had to live in crowded tenements.
Business owners did not share profits with their employees.
There was a large wave of people emigrating from poorer countries.

A, People who remained on farms were stuck in poverty.

Explanation:

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answer: the third option is your answer

explanation:

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