WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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It made it easier to store crops after they were harvested.
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It made it easier to provide water to help grow crops.
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It made it easier to build sod houses in which to live.
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It made it easier to keep livestock from wandering away.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The introduction of barbed wire had an adverse impact on the cultures that had subsisted on the open spaces. Plains tribes and the buffalo herds they followed could no longer move freely across the now-vanishing expanses and ranchers had nowhere left to graze or even herd their cattle on the long cattle drives.
Detailed explanation-2: -Barbed wire was cheaper, easier, and quicker to use than any of these other alternatives. Without fencing, livestock grazed freely, competing for fodder and water. Where working farms existed, most property was unfenced and open to foraging cattle and sheep.
Detailed explanation-3: -Barbed wire played a central role in the development of the Wild West. The “Devil’s Rope” transformed the plains from an expansive open range into a set of defined and enforced tracts of cattle land and farm ground, buttressing property rights and facilitating a boom in economic productivity.
Detailed explanation-4: -The spread of barbed wire enabled farmers to shift more of their lands to these higher value crops and raised productivity on land by roughly 30 percent.