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Some settlers (also called pioneers) acquired land legally, through land grants, such as the Homestead Act, and through legal purchases of newly acquired territories. But unfortunately, there were also cases where prospective settlers who wanted certain land found that it was already inhabited by native people (then called "Indians"), so they took it over by force, by defeating the Indians in battle; or they advocated for government policies that removed the Indians and gave the land to the pioneers.
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How did early Virginia settlers acquire large farms called plantations?
they fought the powhatanto win the lands
What statement best describes life for settlers in the West?
Settlers had an easy time farminng western lands
What did the Morrall Land Grant Act and the Homestead Act have in common?
They both provided ways for settlers to acquire western lands
Why did little of the free lands offered by the homestead act end up being claimed by settlers?
Few settlers wanted to move West at the time.
Why did settlers go through Indian lands?
All lands were "indian lands". The settlers could not avoid them.
The Proclamation of 1763 restricted colonists to territory?
acquire lands west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Who opportunities as western settlers.?
People who migrated from the eastern states found opportunities in the west to get a fresh start and to acquire land.
Who found opportunities as western settlers?
People who migrated from the eastern states found opportunities in the west to get a fresh start and to acquire land.
Many of the first people to inhabit the land in the west lost which two things after white settlers arrived?
forests and lands
Why did settlers want to move out west to unsettled lands?
Because then they could claim some of that land as their own, and make a living out of it.
Why did the settlers head west?
Settlers expanded west to increase size of the country and to let more people immigrate to The United States.ANS 2 - The majority of the settlers moved west to get their own farmlands
Did the settlers of Maryland farm?
The settlers of Maryland did farm the lands that they lived on.
