The correct answer is they blazed trails through the Rocky Mountains and other difficult terrain.
Mountain men were people who lived in the wild of Rocky Mountains from 1810 to 1880. These men played an important role in <em>creating roads</em> so people from the East could travel to the West, helping the fur companies improve their trade. Many mountain men worked as a <em>“free trappers”</em>(by their own), but a lot of them were hired by fur companies.
A rise in prices and the fall in the purchasing value of money
Homestead Act was the name of the law in which the government gave a 160 acre farm to anyone willing to work on and improve the land. The correct option among all the options given in the question is option "D". According to the Homestead Act, the land was given almost free of cost and the only thing the person had to do was develop the land for farming and build a house.
Answer:
The right answer is "It was expensive."
Explanation:
Human exploration of unknown lands and environment actually dates back to ancient times. But in a modern sense, when we speak about European early exploration, we rather speak about the sea voyages by the Portuguese, the Dutch, and the Spanish in order to find new routes to Asia, starting in the 15th century. Maritime trips were expensive and uncertain; the main goals of those expeditions were commercial.