Which of the following helps explain how the railroad companies became the West’s biggest landowners?
a. They were the beneficiaries of government land grants.
b. They were willing to pay the highest prices for land.
c. They arrived in the West before anyone else.
d. They hired private armies to force Indians off their land.
a. They were the beneficiaries of government land grants.
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