Which of the following statements describes women's experience in the West in the late nineteenth century?
a. The Homestead Act reflected the attitudes of the day by excluding women as homesteaders.
b. Single women made up between 5 and 20 percent of homesteaders in North Dakota.
c. Most women living in the West rejected the eastern ideal of domesticity.
d. Women made up only a small percentage of the American population in the West.