How did irrigation affect the class system in the West?
A) Native Americans owned water rights, so they became a wealthy, powerful class over white farmers.
B) Companies that diverted water to the arid West grew wealthy, while landowners and farmers became poor, second-class citizens.
C) Irrigation created fertile land, drawing migrant workers, who became second-class citizens, generally from southern and eastern Europe.
D) Irrigation made once undesirable Indian reservations desirable, so Native Americans were displaced and made to live as a class of nomads without land.
E) Because land was suddenly productive, landowners became wealthy, whereas non-landowners became workers.
Answer: E
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