The corporate cattle boom collapsed because __________
A) the industry never succeeded in attracting foreign capital
B) law enforcers could never stop the persistent stealing of cattle
C) corporations overstocked ranges, which caused ecological disaster
D) cowboys refused to work on corporate-owned ranges
Answer: C
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A) Mark Clement. B) Samuel L. Clemens. C) William Dean Howells. D) John Singer Sargent.
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A) allowed the rail operators to come through an economic depression without bankruptcy. B) caused the operators to be extravagant and sometimes even corrupt. C) meant that the railway operators could pay their workers much higher average wages. D) made the rail lines be conservative with operating costs.
As a result of the election of 1980, the Republicans
A) gained control of both houses of Congress. B) won control of the Senate and cut deeply into the Democratic majority in the House. C) gained seats in both the House and the Senate, although the Democrats still controlled both. D) won control of the House and cut deeply into the Democratic majority in the Senate.
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a. lived in large communities. b. were more advanced than those in South America. c. lived in small, scattered, and impermanent settlements. d. populated the greater part of the continent. e. relied on horses for transportation.