The mining frontier played a vital role in
a. bringing law and order to the West.
b. attracting population to the West.
c. influencing the government to switch from the gold to the silver standard.
d. enabling westerners to resist the power of large corporations.
e. forcing the Indians off the Great Plains.
b
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