The correct answer to this open question is the following.
In a political system where nearly every adult may vote but where knowledge, wealth, social position, access to government officials, and other resources are unequally distributed, who actually governs?
This is the beginning of the book "The New Gilded Age: From Uniqual Democracy, written by Larry M. Bartles."
That question is posed by Robert Dahl, a scholar, and political writer.
The answer would be that in a scenario like the one described in the question, it is the political and economic power that governs in reality.
It is the men of money, the businessmen, the corporation, the political influencers through political action committees. Yes, the big money corporations that hire lobbyists to negotiate with congressmen to pass laws that favor their interests.
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although there are no options attached, we can say the following.
The above description contrast with early mining operations in the American West in that the formerly conditions of the old west were completely different than the "beautiful hills, waving fields of grass, prancing mule deer, a glimmering lake . . ." description by T.H. Watkins.
Indeed, it was the opposite. American settlers that decided to bet on the west and the "gold fever," found difficult conditions and economic hardships. That was not an easy time and required extra work to find the gold.
And let's have in mind that many people that went to the west were people that have been suffering from the difficult conditions in the Plains during the so-called "Dust Bowl" period in which drought and the lack of rain killed animals and affect the production of crops.
Answer: In search of homesteads, husbands, or other new opportunities.
The past war crash in america occured after WW1 as the result of high inventories of manufactored goods with no local buyers and a drop-off in exports, and falling prices for farm produce
