RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS
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Settlers faced droughts, floods, hail, cold winters, prairie fires and pests
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They had to work all day and received no pay
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It was not comfortable because dirty homes
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -European immigrants flooded onto the Great Plains, seeking political or religious freedom, or simply to escape poverty in their own country. Younger sons from the eastern seaboard-where the population was growing and land was becoming more expensive-went because it was a chance to own their own land.
Detailed explanation-2: -The frontier settlers faced extreme hardships-droughts, floods, fires, blizzards, locust plagues, and occasional raids by outlaws and Native Americans. Yet the number of people living west of the Mississippi River grew from 1 percent of the nation’s population in 1850 to almost 30 percent by the turn of the century.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Plains were hard to live on. Many of the newcomers were used to living in villages and then walking or riding out to their fields to farm. But the Homestead Act required those claiming the land to live on it, and the act forced settlers to farm the land in 160-acre plots.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nature was unkind in many parts of the Great Plains. Blistering summers and cruel winters were commonplace. Frequent drought spells made farming even more difficult. Insect blights raged through some regions, eating further into the farmers’ profits.