Mining in the West

question 45

Multiple Choice

Mining in the west

• A)did not see any great mineral strikes until after the Civil War.
• B)flourished until the 1930s.
• C)saw corporations move in first, followed by individual prospectors.
• D)kept ranchers and farmers from establishing their own economic base.
• E)produced the region's first economic boom.

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