estward Settlement Which of these factors did not encourage western settlement? American Indians selling their land Completion of the transcontinental railroad Growth of the cattle industry Land grants through the Homestead Act

American Indians selling their land

When the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848, the US contained fifteen free and fifteen slave states. Controversy surrounded all of the proposed solutions to the problem of slavery in the territories. Additionally, northerners railed against the legality of slavery in the District of Columbia, and southerners, in turn, complained of northern failure to comply with the Fugitive Slave Law. All of these issues had to be resolved if new states were to enter the Union.