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The passage of the Homestead Act. This provided incentives for people to take up farming in places such as Oklahoma and the Great Plains in general. This eventually became a problem between white settlers and Native Americans. President Lincoln was very much interested in this plan to have more settlers move westward.

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Congress passed the Homestead Act which led to the rapid settlement of the Great Plains. This plan was a policy of the Lincoln administration.

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The homestead Act offered 160 acre farm plots for no cost. Novanet

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The Homestead Act.

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Q: Homestead Act of 1862 encourage settlement of the great plains?
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