By meeting the challenges of the prairie’s harsh climate and poor farming conditions, homesteaders eventually settled 50% of America’s urban areas, or more than 10 million acres. 50% of America’s West Coast, or 35 million acres. 20% of America’s East Coast, or more than 5 million acres. 10% of all American land, or more than 270 million acres.

the correct answer is: (1) affected by gerrymandering; (2) not affected by gerrymandering.

gerrymandering is known as a practice that intends to establish a some kind of political advantage for a particular party or group. to do this district boundaries are manipulated. the new resulting district is named a gerrymandering.

in other words, what gerrymandering does is to draw the boundaries of electoral districts trying to benefit the party who is doing it. sometimes, the party controlling the legislature will redraw it so they can maximize the number of districts they are likely to control.

for hobos it was a very hard time most hid on the sides of the railroad tracks causing people to get bulls and get them off sometimes causing in fatal death they couldnt get people to give them money because the   people were also in need of money