Question

“Oh, give me land, lots of land, under starry skies above

Don't fence me in
Let me ride thru the wide-open country that I love
Don't fence me in . . .”

-By Cole Porter and Bob Fletcher

Use the passage to answer the question.

What struggle in the western frontier are the lines in the poem most likely describing?

A.
Women in the West had fewer rights than those in the East and often wished they had more freedom.

B.
Many farmers struggled to get the land they needed to start a farm and felt the space they had was not enough to be successful.

C.
Miners and cowboys felt that their open range way of life would be over once their families arrived and helped establish law and order.

D.
Cowboys could not access enough grass and water for their cows after ranchers sectioned it off with barbed wire.

Answer 1

C is the correct answer

Answer 2

The correct answer is D) Cowboys could not access enough grass and water for their cows after ranchers sectioned it off with barbed wire.

The struggle in the western frontier that the lines in the poem are most likely describing is "Cowboys could not access enough grass and water for their cows after ranchers sectioned it off with barbed wire.

Cowboys were tough men that were dedicated to the ranches activities in the midwest. They herded animals and lived an adventurous life of liberty. As they worked cattle drives, they were faced with a big problem when owners of the land used barbed wire to fence their properties. And that is what is said in the poem above.