Which was not a way that buying clothes and household goods changed at the beginning of the twentieth century? a. people could browse through displays of merchandise for the first time. b. prices on goods in stores were fixed and people no longer bargained with clerks. c. it became possible to buy goods on credit. d. more people turned to custom made goods and away from cheap, mass-produced items.

increasing defense spending.

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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