Question

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What was the Homestead Act? Describe its affect on the praire.

Answer 1

The Homestead Act passed in 1862 gave all the settlers that were travelling east 160 acres of free land. Many of the travellers were not just eastern americans but europeans as well. In short it drew many more people to the american west and made it denser populated (less room for the native indians). By 1895 430,000 settlers had arrived in Kansas, Nebraska and North/South Dakota

Answer 2

also effect* prairie*

Answer 3

WIKI?

Answer 4

Someone had asked that question on yahoo answers that's where I found the answer.

Answer 5

The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. In the United States, this originally consisted of grants totaling 160 acres (65 hectares, or one-fourth of a section) of unappropriated federal land within the boundaries of the public land states. An extension of the Homestead Principle in law, the United States Homestead Acts were initially proposed as an expression of the "Free Soil" policy of Northerners who wanted individual farmers to own and operate their own farms, as opposed to Southern slave-owners who could use groups of slaves to economic advantage

Answer 6

thank you! @Scorpionlax

Answer 7

your welcome lol :)