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This helped farmers adapt to their environment.
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There were 4 railroads built across the West. Railroad companies were given 120 million acres of public land
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The government offered settlers cheap homesteads in Oklahoma. This made Indians lise 11 million acres.
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Farmers had swarms of grasshoppers that ate all of their crops.
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Willa was born in Virginia and later moved to the Great Planes. She became a writer and wrote about her life in the Great Planes.
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Moving West helped blacks helped them get away from prosecution due to the removal of Federal troops in the South
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A Kansas Newspaper praised a woman because she did her own plowing.
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Since John Brown fought against slavery in Kansas they accepted blacks. 20,000 to 40,000 African American moved South.
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Most Chinese farmers that came for the gold rush became farmers instead.
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President Harrison said that land would be availible to the 1st takers at noon on April 22.