During the Gilded Age, the United States government encouraged industrial growth by
(A) initiating the adoption of standard time zones for railroad schedules
(B) providing federal support to inventors like Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell
(C) giving federal land grants to railroad companies
(D) allowing free postage for mail-order catalogs
(E) filing federal injunctions against environmental groups that tried to block development in the West
Answer: (C) giving federal land grants to railroad companies
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