"One of the things that is implied by significant population growth on the Great Plains between 1880 and 1930 would be "<span>A. More and more land was cleared for farming during this time," since the settlers needed this land. "</span>
The correct answer is A) More and more land was cleared for farming during this time.
<em>Significant population growth on the Great Plains between 1880 and 1930 resulted of more land was cleared for farming during this time.
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In the early 1800s, just a few people lived on the Great Plains because they considered that the land was dry and for that reason, was not good for farming. People started to arrive at the Great Plains in 1862 when the Homestead Act was passed. The government sold 160 acres of land for a very cheap price. The condition was for farmers to farm the land for five years. This way they could own the land. So the new settlers learned how to farm on the Great Plains because the soil had grassroots and this presented serious difficulties for farming. As time went by, people from the East moved to the West as land was clearing for farming and all the opportunities that this created.
Kennedy was quoting Puritan settler John Winthrop, who became governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Winthrop used the phrase "as a city upon a hill" in 1630 as a metaphor for the New World settlement and said the "eyes of all people" would be upon it.
Pan-Africanism is a movement that started off as a movement against the European colonialism in Africa. This movement was trying to force and convince the international community that the African people should be free and have their own independent countries. To a certain degree, this movement managed to contribute to the independence of the African nations as it was mobilizing people and organizing them to protest. On the other hand, there were numerous other reasons for it, so it can not be taken as the decisive factor in the gaining of independence of the African nations.
