Ch. 6 Test Review

? is cultivating the land owned by someone else.  

• Preemption Act
• Timber Culture Act
• Tenant farming
• Cash cropping

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

• Homestead Act
• Preemption Act
• Timber Culture Act
• Exodusters

? is a method to obtain land by planing a large number of trees and then purchasing that land at $1.25 an acre.  

• Preemption Act
• Homestead Act
• Timbre Culture Act
• Timber Culture Act

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

• Homestead Act
• Timber Culture Act
• Tenant Farming
• Surveying

Settlers in Kansas experienced hardships such as:

• Exodusters and European immigrants.  
• droughts and grasshoppers.
• barbed wire and fences.  
• lack of land and opportunity.  

Abbie Bright traveled to her brother's claim in Kansas:

• by train and stagecoach.  
• by car using old highway maps.  
• by a ship through the port of New Orleans.  
• on a bicycle, walking when it became too bumpy.  

The majority of the people who came to Kansas after the Civil War were:

• Confederate soldiers and their families looking for peace.  
• European immigrants who thought Kanas would look like their homeland.  
• American Indians relocated here from the eastern United States.  
• American-born who saw great economic and social opportunity.  

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

• travel guides for immigrants could be produced.  
• legal boundaries could be established.  
• lakes and rivers could be redirected. 
• roads and highways could be built.  

Buffalo chips were gathered as fuel because: 

• women had lots of time to do this.  
• they were lighter weight than logs.  
• farmers need to clear them from their fields.  
• wood was scarce.

Nicodemus was settled by :

• French silk farmers.  
• Germans who had followed Catherine the Great to Russia. 
• freed slaves from Kentucky.  
• Mexican railroad workers.