this never got answered, is it D or not..?
Which of the following contributed to the cattle ranching boom?
a. technical advances
b. falling crop prices
c. expansion of the railroads
d. dry farming
thanks:)
Not.
All of the history texts I've known have spent a lot of pages talking about one of those answers.
heres what my book says: during the 1860s and 1870s, cattle ranching boomed. The destruction of the buffalo and removal of Native Americans to reservations emptied the land for grazing cattle. The open plains offered a rancher limitless pasture that was free for the taking.."
Doesn't your text say anything about the railroads? With the completion of the railroads through the west, the ranchers were able to get the beef to markets in the east.
None of the possible answers are included in the passage from your book.
it says nothing about railroads that i could find...or remember reading about.
would that be the appropriate answer for this question?
maybe i need to search my book more..i read the whole page that is related to this but it doesn't mention railroads, or technical advances