What was an advantage of farming on the Great Plains in the late 1800s? There was plenty of inexpensive land available for homesteaders.

Native Americans could be hired as cheap farm labor.

Plenty of rainfall made it easy to grow a variety of crops.

The region was close to large cities, markets, and ports on the East Coast.

the committees of correspondence were the american colonies’ means for maintaining communication lines in the years before the revolutionary war. in 1764, boston formed the earliest committee of correspondence to encourage opposition to britain’s stiffening of customs enforcement and prohibition of american paper money. the following year, new york formed a similar committee to keep the other colonies notified of its actions in resisting the stamp act. in 1773, the virginia house of burgesses proposed that each colonial legislature appoint a committee for intercolonial correspondence. the exchanges that followed built solidarity during the turbulent times and bring about the formation of the first continental congress in 1774.