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Example Question #1 : Ranching
Which of the following terms is best defined as a form of commercial farming where livestock is allowed to roam over an established area while farmers remain settled?
Irrigation
Sharecropping
Agribusiness
Pastoralism
Ranching
Ranching
The term “ranching,” particularly in reference to American agriculture refers to a type of commercial farming in which the livestock (usually cattle) is allowed to roam over an established area. The fact that the animals roam, but the farmers remain settled, separates this term from “pastoralism.”
Example Question #1 : Ranching
The Chisholm Trail facilitated the __________.
transportation of crops from Central and South America to the fertile plains of the United States
forced migration of Native Americans from Texas and the southeastern United States to Oklahoma
None of these answers are correct.
voluntary migration of American settlers westward towards California and Oregon
transportation of cattle from Texas to the rail yards of Kansas
transportation of cattle from Texas to the rail yards of Kansas
“The Chisholm Trail” was a path taken by cowboys and ranchers in Texas during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It involved the transportation of cattle from the ranches of Texas up to the rail yards of Kansas from where the cattle could be shipped to the urban centers of the East Coast.
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