What was an impact of settlement on the environment of the West?
Settlers and travelers destroyed buffalo herds.
The railroad industry boosted local economies.
Innovations in communications were developed.
Suffrage movements expanded to new territories.
Settlers created advanced irrigation systems to water their farmland. Cattle drives caused problems of overgrazing, making the land only suitable for farmland.
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