| A | B |
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| two main reasons people started moving westward | railroads and homestead act |
| african americans who moved from the post-reconstruction south to kansas | exodusters |
| what group of people did the homestead act give opportunities to? | exodusters |
| challenges for settlers in great plains | droughts, floods, blizzards, locusts, plagues, and native american raids |
| houses built by settlers | soddies and dugouts |
| soddy weather conditions: | cool in summer and warm in winter |
| act that federal government helped farmers | The Morill Act |
| this act gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges | The Morill Act |
| daily life of women | farming with men in fields and making clothes from sheep they sheered |
| helped to advance farming | machinery and technology |
| heled produce crops faser and more efficiently | machinery and technology |
| enormous single crop spreads of 15,000-40,000 acres if land | bonanza farms |
