Third parties often have ideas regarding new concepts such as the famous Populist party or the Green party or similar. When these parties become more powerful and start winning senate places in their countries, they usually join the Democrats or the Republicans and the parties slowly wither away.
The correct answer is B. the USSR. Many of the leaders of the Nationalist Party in the Chinese Civil War were very inspired by the political ideology at the present time in the USSR. They were also very interested in the military system and were sent to Moscow to study it. However, there was a conclusion shortly after that the Soviet system was not the best system suitable for China. Nevertheless, the Chinese Nationalist Party kept close ties to the USSR.
The primary way in which the government encouraged settlement in the west was through the Homestead Act, which gave people free land--while the railroads allowed them to travel there safely.
The CCC gave jobs to young men that lost them. And the progress administration encouraged people to do artys things and public works