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This is the Native American War

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The Homestead Act is a act of people ranching and farming in the west were the Native Americans lived.  Setters from all over the word who weren't from the United States would go to the west to homestead. The Native Americans were not so happy with that they were using the land . The Settlers thought the Native Americans weren't using the land right. That started war between the settlers and the Native Americans. The war lasted 26 years.

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Some homesteaders homesteaded because they lost their jobs and others could not afford land. Some families moved just to homestead. It was hard. Families packed up their belongings and just left. The soil in Nabraska, Oklahoma, and Wyoming was good for farming  and people still believed for Colorado to be "The Great American Desert" so they wouldn't homestead there. Then when the land in other states  was taken people decided to give Colorado a try. Well they liked it!

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The Homestead Act was a great opportunity if your planing on moving to the United States.   Anyone who was 21 and over could own land and homestead on it.   Homesteading became a law in 1862 .
The Homestead Act was signed be President Abraham Lincoln in Oklahoma in 1889.  50,000 people came to the west were you homestead.  It was $18 to buy a plot of land.   In 1934, 270 million people bought a plot of land.

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Starting the Colorado territory was hard but thankfully we had William Gilpin as our first governor and creator of the Homestead Act. But he didn't do it alone, he had other governors to help him. Some of them were chosen by the people. It was a smart decision to get others to help him because as I said starting the Colorado territory was hard and it's good to have governors that are the leaders of their territory to help him!

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9. The Native Americans and Settlers Fighting 

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9. The Native Americans and Settlers Fighting 

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The Native Americans wanted the  settlers to leave their land but they refused.   The settlers thought the Native Americans were not using the land right and that started war between the Native Americans and settlers.   The Native Americans  attacked wagon trains and stagecoaches with more settlers in them.  Settlers asked The U.S. army to protect them from the Native Americans.  But The U.S. army was fighting in the civil war.    The governor of Colorado territory ordered all the Native Americans to move to military forts.   The Native Americans would trade their weapons for food and if they did not trade their weapons they would die.

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- The Homestead Act was passed one year after Colorado became a territory.
-  The Homestead Act was made to encourage people to move west.
- Homesteaders payed a small fee to get 160 acres to farmers willing to pay a small fee.
-All homesteaders were citizens.
-Homesteaders must build a house and plant crops in 5 years.
-Many homesteaded because they saw it as a fresh start.