A) What happened to the land grants that had already been made?

The land grants that had already been made is discussed below in details.

Explanation:

Railroads, as private corporations, necessitated engaging in productive plans. So the federal government legislated the Pacific Railroad Act that granted land grants to railroads. This presented public lands to railroad corporations in negotiation for creating tracks in specific places.

The sum of public land grants awarded to the railroads by states and the central government was about 170 million acres.

lincoln declared that slavery should not be allowed to spread into the new states, and of course this angered the south at the time.

so the story tells of someone named kaushik choudhuri, but he does not narrate the story, a girl named hema does. hema tells the story in a second person point of view because you (the reader) are supposed to be the boy named kaushik.

here's an excerpt i found: "i was ushered into the fitting room, your mother watching approvingly as i took off my coat and sweater and tried on the bra."

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