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The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it..

• established ranching towns for cattle drivers.
• offered free land to those willing to farm it.
• offered land to gold prospectors.
• promised protection from Native Americans.

Settlers moving west did not think the Great Plains were fit for farming because..

• only the Spanish and DNative Americans had settled there.
• the area recieved little rainfall and had few trees.
• the region was home to many dangerous wild animals.
• most of the land was too far from existing towns.

One of the primary purposes of the Dawes Act was to..

• turn Native Americans into farmers.
• rebuild the Native American nations.
• restore the tribal ownership of land.
• encourage the Native American population to increase.

Settlers were able to claim 160 acres in the Great Plains as a result of the

• Homestead Act
• Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Dawes Act
• Wounded Knee Treaty

The trans-continental railroad..

• led North.
• led South.
• connected East and West.
• was completed in the 1900's.