The correct answer is A) More and more land was cleared for farming during this time.
Significant population growth on the Great Plains between 1880 and 1930 resulted of more land was cleared for farming during this time.
In the early 1800s, just a few people lived on the Great Plains because they considered that the land was dry and for that reason, was not good for farming. People started to arrive at the Great Plains in 1862 when the Homestead Act was passed. The government sold 160 acres of land for a very cheap price. The condition was for farmers to farm the land for five years. This way they could own the land. So the new settlers learned how to farm on the Great Plains because the soil had grassroots and this presented serious difficulties for farming. As time went by, people from the East moved to the West as land was clearing for farming and all the opportunities that this created.
