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Homestead Act -passed in 1862

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Homestead Act -passed in 1862 -to encourage settlement of the Plains area -gave 160 acres of land to settlers if they improved the land and lived on it. -land speculators -Oklahoma giveaway, 1889 -people continued to come for the cheap lands and opportunity

Homestead Act -passed in 1862 -to encourage settlement of the Plains area -gave 160 acres of land to settlers if they improved the land and lived on it. -land speculators -Oklahoma giveaway, 1889 -people continued to come for the cheap lands and opportunity

Homestead Act -passed in 1862 -to encourage settlement of the Plains area -gave 160 acres of land to settlers if they improved the land and lived on it. -land speculators -Oklahoma giveaway, 1889 -people continued to come for the cheap lands and opportunity

New Technology -deeper wells -steel plows -better farm equipment reaper, harvesters -Morrill Land Grants -railroad expansion transcontinental railroad, 1869

Life on the Farm -sod houses -weather extremes -drought -isolation

Life on the Farm -sod houses -weather extremes -drought -isolation

Life on the Farm -sod houses -weather extremes -drought -isolation

-Frederick Jackson Turner “Frontier Thesis” Decline of Farming -rise of industry -urbanization -end of the frontier -Frederick Jackson Turner “Frontier Thesis” -great debts -Railroad charges