There was agriculture developed there so it mean that there was enough food for both the people and the cattle. Also there were many trading routes through the area so it was possible to sell anything animal related, from food to clothes to leather armors to anything that you could think of.
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<span>Ernest Swinton and William Hankey</span>
The major reason why the Articles of Confederation were too "weak" was because they gave the central government no power to tax the individual states--meaning that the US could not repay its war debt.