Which event best shows the destruction of the natural landscape due to the settlement of the West? A. Many settlers were unable to farm the Great Plains due to the challenges of working with the land. B. With hunting and habitat destruction, American settlers decimated the once-mighty bison herds. C. The US government allocated certain regions of the West for American Indianreservations. D. The ethnically diverse prospectors caused the population of San Francisco, California, to increase rapidly. E. Many American settlers discovered that the mountains and deserts in the West were uninhabitable.

Part b: which phrase from the text best support the answers to part a? a. “i don't want to talk to somebody when i go check in at an airport. i just either download the boarding pass to my phone or walk up to a kiosk and get it.” (paragraph 8) b. “you do not have to go far to find someone who disagrees with andrew mcafee, just around the corner to the office of another person at the same university.” (paragraph 11) c. “the set of things that machines do not do like humans is innumerable.” (paragraph 16) d. “you wonder if you're joining that long litany of voices who go down as having made the incorrect prediction one more time, but i think the facts are different this time.” (paragraph 23)