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The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created to help farmers adapt to theor new environment.
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Railroad companies lured settlers to the west. Therefore, four trail lines were built across the west.
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Grasshoppers devoured everything in their way, leaving farmers with little crop. Even when they got rid of hundreds of them, they doubled in size and wiped out fields of crops.
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Willa Cather reported stories on the Great Plains. She traveled west with her family as a child and later started becoming a full-time writer.
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African Americans had the chance to free themselves from violence and persucution they faced during the withdrawl. A mass departure of Africans was from the so-called, Kansas Fever that ocurred in 1879.
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Kansas Fever caused 20,000 to 40,000 African Americans to fleed from teh South, where violence ahd broken out during the elections.
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Chinese immigrants had to come the U.S. during the Gold Rush to farm.
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Benjamin Harrison announced that land would be available to the first takers.
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Settlers responded to a government off of inexpensive homesteads in Oklahoma.
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Willa Cather became a full-time write on Western farming, and the Great Plains. Wrote many books, and became well known for her work.
