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.
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