African Americans who settled in the plains region of the United States were known as "Exodusters." This term refers to the thousands of African Americans who migrated from the Southern states to Kansas and other parts of the Midwest during the late 19th century, particularly after the Reconstruction era. They sought to escape racial discrimination and economic hardship in the South, hoping to build a better life in the more open and less populated plains.
African Americans that migrated to the Great Plains were called Exodusters.
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The American's thought of it as a vast area to be settled.
The last part of the plains to be settled was the Oklahoma Territory.
African Americans who migrated to the Great Plains in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were commonly referred to as "Exodusters." This term specifically described those who left the South after the Civil War seeking better opportunities and escaping racial discrimination. Many Exodusters settled in states like Kansas, where they sought land and a chance to build new lives amidst the promise of the West.
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The Scotch-Irish immigrant group settled in the coastal plains of the southern United States. They primarily came to the region in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, contributing to the cultural and economic development of the area.
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On the great plains, the homes of settlers were called homesteads. These types of people were farmers, cowboys, miners and railroad workers. Also ranchers and single workers settled here.