The homestead act encouraged settlement in the west, including the great plains. it promised 160 acres of land if settlers built a home and improved the property within 5 years. this caused an influx in migration to the great plains
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The Great Migration, sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.
President Johnson encouraged former Confederate states to reject the Fourteenth Amendment and he also fired several military commanders who support radical Reconstruction.
