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Great West Agricultural Revolution (1865-1896) is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The document summarizes key events in the American West and agriculture between 1865-1896. It discusses the decline of Native American tribes as buffalo and longhorn cattle became extinct and tribes were forced onto reservations through treaties. It also discusses the gold and silver mining booms that attracted new populations, the Homestead Act that gave settlers land, and the rise of large-scale farming of single cash crops which led to oversupply and low prices. Farmers organized groups like the Grange a
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