<span>The answer would be D. years old</span>
It was a dumb idea because it was weak and it was depression
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.
<span>December 7, 1917.
Already at war with Germany, the United States officially declared war on Austria-Hungary; the US never declared war on the other two Central Powers, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.</span>