There are different economic and social factors that changed the west after the civil war. The slaves claimed huge parcels of land where they engaged in farming activities. The small white farmers were pushed to poverty by the war.
There was an increase of Afro-Americans in many areas of civilian and military life after the US Civil War. Certainly the "West" was a good place for freed slaves to go inasmuch as much of the new territories either had farmlands in which freed slaves had experience as well as handling livestock. Both these types of work were found in the South before the US Civil War.
Japanese immigrants did not settle in large number in the West after the Civil War.
that was the color of the American soldiers prior to the civil war
Because of the slavery. Many people were disagreed with slavery which led to civil war but Virginia wanted to keep slavery so they created another country. since it was in the west they called it West Virginia.
limited water
Limited water supply
Encouraged small farms in the Great Plains Provided incentives for settlers to farm in the West increase farming in the west it gave farmers 160 acres of land
I believe the answer is precious metals - gold and silver.
The Farmers Alliance was formed to try to help farmers to become profitable again after the Civil War. The Southern Farmers Alliance, unlike the other alliances in the north and the mid-west excluded black farmers from their organization. This exclusion led to African American farmers making an alliance of their own.
Farmers' cooperatives were common among fruit growers in the west.
There are different economic and social factors that changed the west after the civil war. The slaves claimed huge parcels of land where they engaged in farming activities. The small white farmers were pushed to poverty by the war.
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drought
From Farmers mainly in the Mid-West and West United States. Mainly Kansas,, Colorado, Idaho, and Nevada.
Farmers?
Better chance for farmers to become wealthy