RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
HOMESTEAD ACT
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Question
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Logging
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Textiles
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Farming
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Mining
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Detailed explanation-1: -This old-fashioned term for a farmer was coined in the U.S. around 1897, when it specifically referred to a pioneer working on Western land. It comes from the sense of “busting” the earth, digging and turning it over before planting. A 19th-century John Deere plow shared the name.
Detailed explanation-2: -sodbuster Add to list Share. Someone who works the land, planting vegetables in the spring and harvesting them in the fall, is a sodbuster.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sodbuster was a program created by Title 12 of the Food Security Act of 1985 designed to discourage the plowing up of erosion-prone grasslands for use as cropland.
Detailed explanation-4: -In order to encourage settlers to farm western land. Q. How many acres of land did the Homestead Act offer?