The best and most correct answer among the choices provided by the question is the second choice "There was plenty of inexpensive land available for homesteaders. "
The Great Plains is the broad expanse of flat land, much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie states and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada.
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