How did irrigation create a rural class system in the West?
A) Native Americans owned water rights, so they became a wealthy, powerful class divided from white farmers.
B) Rich Europeans invested in companies that sold diverted water and owned land, while westerners became poor tenant farmers.
C) Irrigation created fertile land, which was sold to immigrants from southern and eastern Europe for small farms.
D) Irrigation made once undesirable Indian reservations desirable, so Native Americans were displaced and made to live as nomads.
E) Only the wealthy could afford to irrigate, creating a divide between landowners and workers.
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