Homesteaders

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motivations not homestead act

end of civil war 1865 - wanted a new life = soldiers, slaves, southerners
more settlers in USA = higher land prices
Europeans escaping poverty / persecution wanted cheap land
Pacific Railroad Act 1862 completed 1869

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Homestead Act

1862
160 acres free land if lived on and farmed for 5 years
pulled from Norway, Russia, Europe and east uSA

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housing

no trees so houses were sod bricks
unhygienic - lots of disease + pests
leaky in rain

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Farming

land never ploughed before - broke ploughs
many crops not suited to climate/soil
wheat was grown instead
Joseph Glidden invents barbed wire bc no fences