How might the government encourage new settlers to the west

The federal government did much to encourage these hopes, most notably with the passage of the Homestead Act in 1862, which parceled out 160 acre homesteads to people who would settle and farm there. This sparked a large wave of settlers on the Great Plains, formerly inhabited by Native Americans, in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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forty niners migrated west due to gold discovery in california and it the west was a new place for hope this : )

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