farming on the great plains in the late 1800s consisted mainly of?

Question

a - commercial operations
b - sharecroppers
c - communal towns
d - subsistence farmers
e - cotton plantations

Answer 1

d

Answer 2

The answer is subsistence farmers. Cotton plantations, and later sharecroppers, were characteristics of Southern agriculture, while the great plains were too far from population centers to make commercial operations viable. There is no tradition of communal towns in the U.S., and there have been few examples where this worked throughout the world.