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Opening the West
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Explaining
4. Why did people who first saw the Plains think it was not good for farming? Mark the Text
5. Underline the words that tell what a settler did to earn free land under the Homestead Act. were too many cattle for sale, the price of beef went down. The cattle industry continued, but it was changed forever. Farmers Settle the Plains 
The people who first came to the Great Plains did not think it was good farmland.