WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Many cowboys left the ranches and went to work for the farmers.
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Farmers raised their own cattle and put the ranchers out of business.
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Cattle ranchers made more money since there were more farmers to buy cattle.
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Farmers put up barbed wire fences making it difficult for ranchers to move their cattle.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Once a large number of farmers started using the wire fencing, ranchers discovered that cattle drives were no longer a viable option for relocating their cattle to railheads. The fences took some freedom away from cattlemen and ranchers. The fences also took away the freedom of the land.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Farmers who moved to the plains needed to protect their crops from animals and thieves. Barbed wire helped homesteaders to settle on the often-hostile Great Plains. Ranchers relied on the open range to graze their cattle.
Detailed explanation-5: -At the end of the war the Texans returned to their ranches to find their cattle herds had grown dramatically. It is estimated that in 1865 there were roughly five million cattle in Texas. Therefore, supply was totally outstripping demand in Texas and beef prices fell dramatically.