Answer:
Many homesteaders overcame the difficulties and built new lives.
Explanation:
While many people (US adult citizens) through the Homestead Act of 1862, moved out west across the Mississippi, the region was characterized by so many hardships for the settlers. The hardships were caused by various factors such as incessant hail, droughts, insect swarms, lack of building materials, etc.
However, given that the requirement to own the acquired land is to stay there too and build a residence and cultivation of land, many homesteaders overcame the difficulties and built new lives.
This was evident by the homesteaders continue stays and work on the farmland until around the 1870s when as a result of railroad expansion, when farm equipment became accessible, thereby, large farms started to prosper through economies of scale.
