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John Deere invented the steel plow to help farmers get through the tough topsoil of the Western states.
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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) helped farmers adapt to their new environment. The USDA also showed the new farmers new techniques.
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An act was passed to turn publc land into private properties after the Southern States seceded from the Union.
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African Americans moved West to escape the violence and persecution. This violence was caused by the withdrawal of Federal troops from the South.
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A Kansas newspaper praised a woman just because she did her own plowing.
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The Kansas Fever was one of the biggest mass departure of African American settlers.
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In California alone 3,200 Chinese turned to growing crops and farming.
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During this time of movement to the West more than 100,000 Scandinavians flocked to the American West.
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President Banjamin Harrison announced that land would be available cheap to the first takers.
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A flood of prospective settlers responded to a government offer of inexpensive homesteads.
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Most of the large bonanza farms had been broken up into lots of smaller farms by this time.
