Question

4. What is the safety valve hypothesis? Explain the hypothesis. Does it provide a satisfactory explanation for the settlement of western lands? Explain.

Answer 1

ANS. The safety valve hypothesis is theory about how to deal with unemployment which gave rise to the Homestead Act of 1862 in the United States. Given the concentration of immigrants (and population) on the Eastern coast.

The hypothesis is that making free land available in the West would relieve the pressure for employment in the East. By analogy with steam pressure, the enactment of a free land law, it was believed, would act as a safety valve. This theory meant that if the East started filling up with population, they could always go West until they reached a point where they could not move any farther. The hypothesis Claims that exposure to sexually explicit material will satisfy whatever urges right cause a person to commit a sex crime. It result in decrease in the sex crimes committed to communities that have ready availability to these materials.

No, the safety valve hypothesis doesn't provide satisfactory results in the settlement of western lands. The government had thrown open the vast public domain for family settlements. Homestead of 160 acres would be granted to heads of families upon payment of small filling fee and satisfaction of residence and improvements requirements but at the end of they failed.They owe to the efforts of an unlikely collection of reformers and the several voice is going up.

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