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Homestead Act Provided 160 acres free land to settlers who were willing to live on it and farm it for 5 years Exodusters African Americans who migrated from the South to Kansas after the Civil War. Morrill Land Grant Act encouraged states to use the sale of federal land grants to maintain agricultural and technical colleges sod houses Settlers on Great Plains built houses made of mud, rock, water, and other things bonanza farms large farms on the Great Plains that were run like factories -produced one crop Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889 former Indian lands opened up for settlement, resulting in a race to lay claim for a homestead (Boomers and Sooners) Gold Rush a period from1848 to 1856 when thousands of people came to California in order to search for gold. Comstock Lode largest silver strike in US - in Nevada