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.
passage of the HOmestead Act
the US government encouraged the settlement of the great plains with the homestead act of 1862, promising 160 acres to any family that stays and cultivates the land for 5 years
The Great Plains
the homestead act offered them free land
How native americans respond to land lost due to white settlement of the great plains?
Why did the US government encourage settlement on the Great Plains?
How did the homestead act encourage freed African Americans to move to the great Plains
The Homestead Act of 1862is most responsible for the rapid settlement of the Great Plains.
passage of the HOmestead Act
the government supported settlement of the great plans by passing the homestead act in 1862.
because of the dawes act
because of the dawes act
The Homestead Act opened the Great Plains west of the Mississippi River to settlement by pioneers by guaranteeing the pioneer family a parcel of land for them to farm and claim as their own.
the US government encouraged the settlement of the great plains with the homestead act of 1862, promising 160 acres to any family that stays and cultivates the land for 5 years
The government encouraged settlers to move to the great plains because the land was cheap and they could keep the land for 5 years
The Great Plains
Few settlers had moved to the Great Plains.