Chapter 6

Cultivating farmland owned by someone else

• Homestead Act
• Preemption Act
• Timber Culture Act
• tenant farming

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

• Homestead Act
• Preemption Act
• Timber Culture Act
• tenant farning

A method to obtain land without having to purchase it by living on it and making improvements over a fiver year period

• Homestead Act
• Preemption Act
• Timber Culture Act
• Tenant Farming

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

• Homestead Act
• Preemption Act
• Timber Culture Act
• Tenant Farming

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

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

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

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

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

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

Settlers in Kansas experienced hardships such as:

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

Buffalo Chips were gathered as fuel because:

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

Nicodemus was settled by:

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