The invention described below led to - * A. A decrease in the overall cost of goods to markets.

B. The expansion of rapid communications to long distances.

C. a dramatic increase in people living in rural areas.

D. streamlined mass production of goods.

the choice is D a dramatic increase I people living in rural

b. parliament was weaker than the monarchy.

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