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The Populism was an political movement aimed at improving conditions for the country's farmers, that lead to rises in crop prices and lower federal taxes.

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the Morrill Act which gave land to states so that the states could build and finance the construction of higher- education based schools (colleges) focusing on agriculture and farming.

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Any man that was a american citizen could claim free land, they just had to get there

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There was a demand for beef, they just needed people to be ranchers

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There was more jobs out west and the newly freed African Americans could make a new life in the west

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The west was filled with open space, nobody was crammed together in cities

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Any head of household could claim 160 acres of land and any single male could claim 60 acres

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Gold was being found in Colorado, California, and South Dakota so the natives were pushed somewhere that there was no gold

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Farming in the west was hard because of the weather, so they invented new machines to make farming  easier, like the Plow, Reaping machine, Grain drill, Barbed wire, and the Corn binder

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The people that wanted to learn to ranch, learned from the Mexican cowboys, it wasnt easy.

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The western farmers were plauged with weather hardships that made it hard to grow crows like, Droughts, Floods, Fires, Blizzards, Locusts, and Bandits