Which of the Following Did Not Stimulate Westward Settlement

question 56

Multiple Choice

Which of the following did not stimulate westward settlement?

• A) Military bounties in the form of land grants to veterans of the War of 1812
• B) Building the National Road
• C) The growing strength of the federal government
• D) Admission of new states into the Union
• E) Federal support of existing Indian settlements

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