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How did the U.S. government make lands available to western settler said?
Through conquest and subversion of the native tribes. Technically speaking, they passed the Homestead Act, which gave settlers the right to carve out a plot of land, for free.
Is the Morrill Land Grant Act a law?
An impact on higher education that allowed college and land grants for settlers.
How did the Homestead Act of 1862 help settlers in the West?
the homestead act offered free land for settlers-apex♥♥
Why did the first settlers of Oklahoma come from?
The first official settlers of Oklahoma were art of the Land Run of 1889, basically the US government opened up the land to settlers and settlers raced to build their homesteads in order to be able to claim as much land as possible for free, hence the settling of the great state of Oklahoma. Cheers
How did the homestead act of 1862 pull settlers in the plains?
The Homestead Act offered 160 acre farm plots for no cost.
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