KS History Ch.5

A period of low economic activity.  High unemployment usually happens during this time.

• depression
• tenant
• monopoly
• irrigation

How much land could a homesteader get under the Homestead Act?

• only 10 acres
• up to 160 acres
• up to 100 acres
• only 100 acres

To bring water to crops

• emancipation
• monopoly
• irrigation
• tenant

The first and only still-existing all African-American town.

• Topeka
• Nicodemus
• Carbondale

A method of farming where renters grow crops on someone else's land and give a portion.

• irrigation
• timber farmer
• tenant farming
• sharecropping

A former slave who encouraged freed slaves to come to Kansas to own land.

• Nicodemus
• Pap Sinlgeton
• Abbie Bright
• George Grant

Under the Homestead Act, how many years did you have to live on the land to get the land for free?

• 10 years
• 2 years
• 5 years
• 1 year

Under the Homestead Act, if you didn't want to wait 5 years to get the land for free you could buy it for _______.

• $5 per acre
• $10 per acre
• $1.25 per acre
• $8.50 per acre

How many miles was an average cattle drive?

• 100 miles
• 500 miles
• 750 miles
• 425 miles

Where did most people who moved to Kansas come from?

• Europe

• Asia

• The U.S.A.

• Mexico