group 3: Great Plains were a lot cheaper cost. If you were an American citizen settler you got 160 acres of land for free. Railroad land was sometimes sold to settlers at extremely high prices. cattle stampedes happened when gunshots were fired. Windmills pump water out of the ground. When they came to the great plains, they used the wrong seeds and they had not enough supplies to grow the right seeds. Populism was the first political movement which started the organization for communities. By 1890 populists became organized in some of the plain states.
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