A factor in the U.S. government abandonment of the policy of one large reservation after 1851 was __________
A) to enable wagon trains needed to cross the Great Plains without hindrances
B) a push by Southerners to allow slavery in the western territories
C) that Indians had traditional rivalries and needed to be kept apart
D) a desire to assimilate the Native Americans into mainstream society
E) the difficulty in finding large enough tracts of unsettled land
Answer: A
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