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Q: The Homestead Act encouraged people to settle in the American West. Settlers were given land free by?
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Which law encouraged many people to establish farms on the Great Plains?

homestead act


Where did early kansas settlers come from?

They were people who moved from the Eastern states to begin new lives and to homestead the land.


The intent of the Homestead Act was to?

The Homestead Act gave acres of western land to anyone who promised to work the land for five years. This encouraged many immigrants to come to the United States and help settle the West.


What did Massasoit do?

Massasoit was a leader of the Wampanoag people in the early 1600s who encouraged friendship with English settlers.


Who were the American settlers?

Many people were settlers from all around the world.


What was the homestead act of 1862 and how did it encourage Americans to move out west?

The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged Americans to move out west because it offered 160 acres of undeveloped land in the west to all American citizens FOR FREE.It was first comes first serve so people rushed over to get the free land before it was all gone.


How did the homestead help bring settlers to the west?

Homesteading gave people the chance to own land simply by claiming it, and working to farm the land.


Homestead Act of 1862 encourage settlement of the great plains?

The passage of the Homestead Act. This provided incentives for people to take up farming in places such as Oklahoma and the Great Plains in general. This eventually became a problem between white settlers and Native Americans. President Lincoln was very much interested in this plan to have more settlers move westward.


How did people feel about the homestead act?

Most United States citizens at the time would have felt indifferently or positively about the act, as it encouraged settlement by offering land to those who would cultivate it and occupy it for five years. However, Native American peoples were threatened and pushed out of ancestral lands by the act and people who invoked it.


Why di little of the free land offered by the homestead act end up being claimed by settlers?

this is Jean again the answer is : Most of it was taken by people seeking profits


What is the term for people who moved west in 19th-century America?

the kind of people that moved west were pioneers.


Marcus gravey was an african-american leader who encouraged his followers to?

Marcus Garvey encouraged his followers to go back to Africa and "redeem" it for their people.