Key term for AQA GCSE History, used in America: Expansion and Consolidation (1840–1895).
Small-scale farmers who settled the Great Plains; they were often nicknamed 'sodbusters'.
Homesteaders appears in AQA GCSE History revision content for Period Studies, especially America: Expansion and Consolidation (1840–1895) and Settlement of the West.
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