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GCSE History · key term
A settler who established a farm on land claimed under homestead legislation.
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Paper 1
A settler who established a home and farm on land claimed under homestead legislation, gaining ownership by meeting its conditions.
Revise: Settlement of the WestHomesteaders were settlers who established homes and farms on land they claimed, hoping eventually to own it. From the 1860s, many moved onto the Great Plains: a vast grassland region where land seemed plentiful but farming could be extremely demanding.
Paper 2
A settler who established a home and farm on land claimed in the American West.
Revise: Development of SettlementA homesteader was a settler establishing a home and farm on claimed land. Access to land was an important starting point, but it did not provide the water, equipment or money needed to make a farm succeed.
A settler who claimed public land to establish a farm and home.
Paper 3
A settler who claimed land under the Homestead Acts and worked to gain ownership by living on and improving it.
Revise: HomesteadersA homesteader was a settler who claimed land and worked towards owning it by living on and improving it.
Keep solutions within 1840–1895. Crop-dusting from the 1920s cannot explain how nineteenth-century homesteaders overcame insect attacks.
For conflict with homesteaders, connect competing uses of public land to specific disputes over grazing, crops, access and fencing.
Keep the chronology clear. Turkey Red wheat arrived in 1873 and barbed wire was developed in 1874, so these were not available to the earliest homesteaders.
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