By when had open-range ranching ended and why?
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Ans: By the mid-1890's it had ended: mainly due to competition for public land. (The harsh winter of '86-'87 killed many cattle and accelerated the ending.)
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What groups of people made the transatlantic voyage to the Americas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and what were the reasons they went there?
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The Ptolemaic model of the universe troubled Copernicus mainly because
a. it disagreed with observations of the planets. b. it contradicted the Biblical cosmology. c. its mathematics was so complex. d. it contradicted Aristotle's cosmology. e. it lacked internal consistency.
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a. a short growing season. b. rocky soil. c. lack of rainfall. d. small farms. e. European demand for its produce.