The settlers on the Great Plains gave up and moved because they wanted to explore. They could not thrive in the Great Plains.
Which The White Settler are you meaning?
Towards the oceans. The great plains are in the center of the North American continent and the coastal planes are East, West and South nearer to the oceans and seas.
In 1862, the 'Homesteaders Act' was created by the US government to encourage citizens to move and live on the Great Plains. Settlers were required to pay a $12 registration and filing fee. If a settler lived on the 160 acre tract of land for five years, built a house and farmed the land, the settler owned it for an additional six dollars.
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How did the homestead act encourage freed African Americans to move to the great Plains
To move with the crops and buffalo
The land had run out at home.
The great plains of the US get more rain as you move eastward, becoming forests. Westward the plains phase into deserts, high sage plains or mountains.
For better land encluding for there Familys
great plains
there where job available
because it where settler can move thing like steamboat or road so settler can move move from one place to another faster