In the Early Nineteenth Century,the Westward Movement of White Americans

question 50

Multiple Choice

In the early nineteenth century,the westward movement of white Americans was encouraged by all of the following EXCEPT for

• A) the exhaustion of agricultural lands in the East.
• B) the spread of the plantation system in the South.
• C) the federal government's policy toward Indian tribes in the West.
• D) the lure of mineral mining in the mountainous regions of the West.
• E) the expansion of a slave labor in the South.

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