6. The decline of the long drive and the cattle boom resulted from

a. the settlement of homesteading farmers on range land.
b. a series of extraordinarily severe winters.
c. overgrazing and overproduction.
d. the inability to recruit enough veteran cowboys.
e. barbed-wire fencing.

the settlement of homesteading farmers on range land

Explanation:

The decline of the long drive and the cattle boom resulted from the settlement of homesteading farmers on range land; a series of extraordinarily severe winters; overgrazing and overproduction; and barbed-wire fencing.

colony: virginia

1: 1607,john smith

2: british were looking for gold and land

3: near oceans and theres forests

4: fishing? ithink

5: sometimes

  b.

there are isolated pockets of farming, generally around rivers and oases, which are used for irrigation.