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The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century: Chapter 5, Section 2
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Homestead Act
Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years. The settler would only have to pay a registration fee of $25.
Exoduster
the African Americans migrating to the Great Plains state (ie: Kansas & Oklahoma) in 1879 to escape conditions in the South.
Soddy
A home built of blocks of turf.
Morrill Act
(1862) Federal law that gave land to western states to build agricultural and engineering colleges.
Bonanza farm
Large, 15,000-50,000 acre, single crop farms; came to dominate agricultural life in much of the West in the late 1800s.
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