Question

What were the experiences of miners, farmers, ranchers, and women in the West in the late nineteenth century?

Answer 1

Answer:

They all suffered with the economic impact of the war. The South became more powerful and relevant. However each one of these individuals experienced their own late nineteenth century impact.

Explanation:

Many migrants were attracted to new opportunity, miners were drawn to the discovery of precious metals like silver. Most miners and farmers did not become wealthy because the mineration became a large scale enterprise.

The farmers on great plains produced wheat for exportation, but the declining grain prices and necessity of machinery and transportation were real obstacles to small ranchers. Only larged scale farmers, specially from the south, could sustain the costs and profits. Only a few could support the expensive structure of the business.

The west was the first home of women's suffrage in the U.S., with nearly every western state or territory enfranchising women long before women won the right to vote in eastern states.  The western states gave better opportunities to women such as right to vote, equal pay for women teacher and more liberal divorce laws. There were some contradicitons, because in some areas, women continued to lag behind men.