The correct answer is the third one: approval by 9 of the 13 states.
However, all 13 out of 13 states approved the Constitution
The development that probably hurt it is the reduction of open range herding. In history, people could just let their cattle roam freely and find food since the plains were huge and nobody lived in them. Nowadays, this can be problematic because there are more and more people and settlements and roads with cars so free range herding has been drastically reduced which cost the herders a lot.
1825: Turnpikes, canals, and rail lines drastically changed America's landscape, beginning in the 1800s. Following the War of 1812, the American economy was altered from an economy partly dependent on imports from Europe to an empire of internal commerce.
