The federal government played a key role in the development and white

The federal government played a key role in the development and white settlement of Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas shortly after the War of 1812 by

A) beginning official surveys and legal sales of land.
B) spending government revenue on maintaining the U.S. Army to protect these new lands under U.S. control.
C) building a new road from Columbia, South Carolina to Columbus, Georgia and eventually further southwest into the so-called black belt region of the South.
D) permitting illegal squatters who moved onto farms abandoned by Indians during the War of 1812 to gain legal title without purchasing the land from the government.

ANSWER
Answer: A