Which was an advantage of farming on the great plains in the late 1800s?

a.
native americans could be hired as cheap farm labor.

b.
there was plenty of inexpensive land available for homesteaders.

c.
plenty of rainfall made it easy to grow a variety of crops.

d.
the region was close to large cities, markets, and ports on the east coast.

The best and most correct answer among the choices provided by the question is the second choice "There was plenty of inexpensive land available for homesteaders. "

The Great Plains is the broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie states and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. 

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