Continue 5:2 section, In 1862 the homestead Act was passed, 160 acres was freely given to any citizen or family that would promise farming- only about 10 percent of the people of the land was actually settled by the famileis for whom it was intended, but their were alot of loop holes so people would get the best of the system. Henry D Wahburn and explrer Nathaniel P Langford asded Congress to help protect the wilderness form settlement- government created Yellowstone National Park. Department of the Interior force railroads to five up their claim to Western landholdings that were equal in Easer coast. The Census Bureau declard that the country no lhad a continuous frontier line.
Great Plains was a vast grassland region with farming. LIved in Dugouts and Soddies buikt in hills and caverns. Women worked with men in the feild and helped farm. Women did a lot more than just feed the children and cooked, very important. Made steel Plow and reeping machine made farming easier. Ton of manufactors, grain decreased in time The new farming equipment was expensive so they had to borrown money to buy it.
Expansion of Industry
The first Oil in Texas was found in a spindle top near Texas founded by Higgins. He couldn't really convince pleple that he had found it. Captain Anthony F lucas believed Higgins and vecase the first investor and many more followed In the fall of the 1900 they began to dirll for oil.
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