Because they would be hanged and killed or they would sell their family members
The correct answer is letter C.
Explanation: All the fight between the Farmers and the Cowboys it was because the cowboys broke into the ranchers' property with their cattle, thus damaging the land that the farmers had, preventing them from planting, since they lived of that.
The farmers couldn't take action on what the cowboys did. Until the barbed wire was created and then the peasants could protect their land.
To show their enemies, USA and much of the west, that they were capable of producing atomic bombs and even using them.
Government is a body of highly qualified people that run a large body of people.