Edexcel GCSE History · 1HI0
Paper 2
Revise: Changes in Farming and SettlementOverstocking, financial losses and enclosure worked together to end open-range ranching.
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GCSE History · key term
Keeping more animals on an area of land than its grazing can support.
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Paper 2
Revise: Changes in Farming and SettlementOverstocking, financial losses and enclosure worked together to end open-range ranching.
Paper 3
Keeping more animals on land than its available food and water can support.
Revise: Big business and citiesThe growth of the cattle industry created problems when ranchers placed more cattle on the plains than the grass could feed. This overstocking left animals weak and reduced the quality of their beef.
For a causal explanation, link the steps: overstocking reduced the grass available, weakening cattle before the severe winter of 1886–87.
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