No longer did people feel they had no choice but to suffer through the drudgery of life in eastern cities…. America has always rightfully been called the “land of opportunity,” and never in its history has that title been more appropriate than during the homesteading era. Agriculture in America was largely expanded and revolutionized by the Homestead Act. While the western lands on which many homesteaded were often bleak and dry, many of them were fit for the production of crops that otherwise would never have been grown in the United States. Corn, wheat and milo certainly would not have flourished in the east as they did (and still do) in the Midwestern and western
No longer did people feel they had no choice but to suffer through the drudgery of life in eastern cities…. America has always rightfully been called the “land of opportunity,” and never in its history has that title been more appropriate than during the homesteading era. Agriculture in America was largely expanded and revolutionized by the Homestead Act. While the western lands on which many homesteaded were often bleak and dry, many of them were fit for the production of crops that otherwise would never have been grown in the United States. Corn, wheat and milo certainly would not have flourished in the east as they did (and still do) in the Midwestern and western