Reasons for homesteaders
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- Created on: 23-06-18 10:59
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- Homesteaders- reasons for settling on the Plains
- Government encouargement
- 1862
- Homestead Act
- 160 acres of land for free
- Had to be lived on and farmed for 5 years
- Homestead Act
- 1873
- Timber Culture Act
- Further 160 acres of land for free
- Required to plant 40 acres with trees
- Timber Culture Act
- 1877
- Desert Land Act
- Could buy 640 more acres of land cheaply
- Areas where lack of rainfall was a problem
- Desert Land Act
- 1862
- End of Civil war (1861-65)
- Demobilised soldiers and families
- Fresh start
- Freed black slaves
- New start in life
- Became
- Fresh start
- Homesteaders
- Railroad builders
- Cowboys
- Became
- New start in life
- Demobilised soldiers and families
- Building of the railroads
- Easier to reach plains
- Land sold cheaply by railroad companies
- Provided employment
- Advertising
- Push
- Escape from poverty and unemployment
- Lack of farming space
- Religious persecution
- Ex-soldiers lack of oppurtunity
- Freed slaves escaping social persecution
- Pull
- Free land
- Manifest destiny
- New start
- Advertising from railroad companies
- News from settlers of good
- Enabling
- Railroads, easier to get there
- Clear of Plains Indians after 1860s.
- Government encouargement
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