What led to the rise of townsites around rail towns? a. settlers were able to buy land more cheaply directly from the railroad. b. settlers entering the unassigned lands on trains grabbed land near the tracks. c. settlers knew the land near railroads was worth less and therefore was cheaper. d. settlers could gain a stake in the railroads by leasing claimed land to them.

B. Settlers entering the Unassigned Lands on trains grabbed land near the tracks.

Explanation:

The Unassigned Lands were lands of an area of more than 1 million acres that were located in the future state of Oklahoma. Those lands were not assigned to a particular Indian Tribe, therefore people believed it did not have an owner, some even defended that those areas should be open to white settlement.

With no one to “protect” the land, settlers decided to enter those Unassigned Lands and grab some land that was near the tracks, predicting that would be a good place to live or build something.

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