Kansas History 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 Farming

A method to obtain land without having to purchase it by living on it and making improvements over a five 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 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 too bumpy.

• by ship throught he 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 lot 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 reailroad workers.

• Freed Slaves from Kentucky.