The decline of the long drive and the cattle boom resulted from

a. the settlement of homesteading farmers on range land.
b. a series of extraordinarily severe winters.
c. overgrazing and overproduction.
d. the inability to recruit enough veteran cowboys.
e. barbed-wire fencing.


a, b, c, e

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A) it was too diverse economically B) western states lacked efficient spokesmen C) too few people lived in the West for a regional identity to take hold D) migrants to the West brought their previous cultural and political attitudes

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Under the first emperors, succession to power was __________.

A. hereditary B. ratified by the Senate C. by military conquest D. ambiguous and chaotic

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What does it mean to describe the post-1945 world as a period of “Cold War,” and was this description always accurate?

What will be an ideal response?

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