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Homesteaders. Many easterners rushed to accept the offer of free land. By 1900, half a million farmers had settled on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act. The Homestead Act had its problems. Only about 20 percent of the homestead land went directly to small farmers. Big landowning companies took large areas of land illegally. Exodusters. ................
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