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The great plains were also known as the great American desert why was this area given that name

The great plains were also known as the great American desert why was this area given-example-1
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Long called the region "the Great American Desert." He considered the area "almost wholly unfit for cultivation, and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence." It was flat, treeless, and arid. Americans surged westward after 1860 for many reasons.

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The answer is B

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It is a desert and deserts get little to no rain

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