After 1851, the U.S. government abandoned the policy of one large reservation because of each of the following factors EXCEPT
A) wagon trains needed to cross the Great Plains.
B) prospectors kept finding more gold and silver in the West.
C) the Indians could not get along with each other and needed to be kept apart.
D) a transcontinental railroad was being planned.
E) the government wanted to clear the way for settlement.
Answer: C) the Indians could not get along with each other and needed to be kept apart.
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