Author Question: What did mining, cattle ranching, and wheat farming have in common? A) Most people who tried ... (Read 225 times)

pragya sharda · **on:** Jul 4, 2018

What did mining, cattle ranching, and wheat farming have in common?

A) Most people who tried their hand at them made money.
B) Slow economic growth made them safe investments.
C) Boom and bust economic cycles affected them.
D) The work itself was not hard.
E) They depended on massive government subsidies.

Question 2

Frederick Jackson Turner was

A) a painter of American western landscapes.
B) a historian who put forth the thesis that the frontier was the key to the American character.
C) the author of Ramona, a tale of doomed love set on a California Spanish-Mexican ranch.
D) a one-armed veteran of the Civil War who charted the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.
E) the author of Roughing It, a mining novel.