Keeping in mind the description of the stone point given in the story, we can state Marshall the rancher was looking at a Folsom point.
As it's known, a Folsom is a kind of stone point with a leaf-like shape which has a concave base and wide, shallow grooves/flutes running almost the entire length of the point.
I think the term is union busting where they prevent
formation of unions. This way, the
management will be able to have more control over how things run without union
interference. Other methods could be
blacklisting them to ensure they won’t work for other companies.
After the split from the supercontinent, the individual continents underwent a number of changes of their shoreline. For example, the constant flow of water "smoothed" the surface, which meant that in some parts the land decreased (was washed away by the currents) and in other parts the land increased with the accumulation of the material that the currents brought.
This changed the shape of the continents in a way that they no longer "fit" together perfectly.
It was "A.The U.S. and Spain went to war in 1898" that led to Cuba gaining its independence in 1902, since tensions between Cuba and Spain had been simmering for some time.
The southern economy remained largely agricultural mainly due to agriculture's importance to the colonies as a trade export (especially cotton, tobacco, and other cash crops).