Ch 5 Review

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Cultivating farmland owned by someone else

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tenant farming

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A method that allowed a squatter to purchase public land he had lived on after 14 months

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Preemption Act

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_____ 3. A method to obtain land without having to purchase it by living on it and making improvements over a 5 year period

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Homestead Act

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_____ 4. A method to obtain land by planting a large number of trees and then purchasing that land at $1.25 an acre

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Timber Culture Act

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5. Americans who lived on Indian lands were called ___________________________.

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squatters

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More than 5,000 Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche met with representatives of the U.S. government to make peace at ___________________________.

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Medicine Lodge

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The massacre of Plains Indians by the Colorado Volunteer Regiments occurred at ________________________________ and added to the American Indians distrust of the United States.

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Sand Creek

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The 9th and 10th Cavalries were made up of African American soldiers who became known as __________________________________.

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Buffalo Soldiers

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The coming of the ______________________ helped to end the frontier in Kansas

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railroad

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_____ 10. It was important to survey public lands in Kansas so that:

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legal boundaries could be established