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U.S. Department of Agriculture
The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created to help farmers adapt to theor new environment. -
Trail Lines
Railroad companies lured settlers to the west. Therefore, four trail lines were built across the west. -
Grasshoppers
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. -
Willa Cather
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. -
African American
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. -
Kansas Fever
Kansas Fever caused 20,000 to 40,000 African Americans to fleed from teh South, where violence ahd broken out during the elections. -
Chinese Farming
Chinese immigrants had to come the U.S. during the Gold Rush to farm. -
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison announced that land would be available to the first takers. -
Settlers
Settlers responded to a government off of inexpensive homesteads in Oklahoma. -
Writing
Willa Cather became a full-time write on Western farming, and the Great Plains. Wrote many books, and became well known for her work.
