What Did the State and Federal Governments Do to Encourage

question 7

Multiple Choice

What did the state and federal governments do to encourage railroad construction in the decades after the Civil War?

• A) They gave railroad companies 180 million acres of public land.
• B) They gave railroads rights-of-way across homesteaders' land.
• C) They sold land to railroad companies at bargain prices.
• D) They reclaimed acreage already settled by farmers and sold it to the railroads.

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