The inventions of Deere's steel plow and McCormick's reaper encouraged the settlement of the western plains by making agriculture more efficient. It also helped in the sustenance of people who live in the western plains.
The Federal government encouraged western settlement with the Homestead Act. This was a government policy that said that people who were willing to settle western land would be given large sections of land very cheap.
One way the federal government encouraged Western settlement was by expanding railroads. The US Congress also passed the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862.
He bought the Louisiana Purchase from France (doubling the country's size) for the United States on his own reseasoning without consulting the government.
The Homestead Act is what stimulated the western settlement.
The invention of barbed wire by Joseph Glidden in 1874 helped farmers to fence in their lands on the lumber-scarce plains. Using mail-order windmills to drill deep wells provided some water.
The Homestead Act of 1862 was meant to encourage settlers to western lands and create farmlands. The US government would allow settlers from the East to claim Federal western lands to farming if they met certain requirements. When these requirements were accomplished, the settlers would have free land from the US government.
They contributed to the Quakers in in the western settlement
The first settlement in Western Australia was by the British.
William McCormick has written: 'A sketch of the Western District of Upper Canada' -- subject(s): Social life and customs, History
There is 5 effects that the settlement had on the Western Plains. The 5 effect are farming, crops, railroads, people and money.
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