Multiple Choice
Which of the following is true of the frontier farmers of the 1870s and 1880s?
A) Only the "bonanza" farmers survived the drought of the late eighties.
B) They farmed the land with little knowledge or concern for preventing erosion or preserving fertility.
C) Cultivating the prairie grasslands was quite similar to their experience in Ohio and Illinois.
D) Farmers who diversified their crops were most likely to fail.
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