Module 7 of 22 · Text
The Homestead Act
- 1862
- promoted settlement of west
- 160acre plots claim $10
- over 21, ex-slaves, ex-soldiers
- 80million acres were settled
- 60% failed
- 1/2 nebraska homesteaded
Homesteaders
- isolated
- no medication
- no trees - buffalo chips
- weather
- dense roots, ploughts would break = steel ploughs
- 1854 self governing windmill
- 1870 steel blades
- 1873 timber culture act
- 1874 barbed wire