During the nineteenth century, the U.S. government focused on encouraging economic expansion and development by __________
a. creating the Tennessee Valley Association
b. supporting canal and later railroad construction
c. instituting the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
d. the annexation of Texas under President Zachary Taylor
ANS: B
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a. true b. false
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