The second amendment in the bill of rights protects against abuses of power that the colonists feared from their experiences under british rule. in securing that a well-regulated militia should be established, what right does the second amendment give citizens that is still a hotly debated issue today? '
a. the right of the people to defend their homes
b. the right of the people to keep and bear arms
c. the right of the people to free speech
d. the right of the people to be drafted into the armed forces

The answer is B. the right of the people to keep and bear arms  :)

length of the cultivating season was not a problem of new england agriculture

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