Kansas Journey Chapter 6

Cultivating farmland owned by someone else

• Homestead Act

• Preemption Act

• Timber Culture Act

• Tenant farming

People who were living illegally on the land, squatters, were given a chance to buy the land for $1.25/acre with which act

• Homestead Act

• Preemption Act

• Timber Culture Act

• Stamp Act

People who were given a chance to get land for free by making improvements to the over a 5 year period was which act?

• Homestead Act

• Preemption Act

• Timber Culture Act

• Stamp Act

People who were given a chance to buy the land for $1.25/acre by planting trees on it was which act?

• Homestead Act

• Preemption Act

• Timber Culture Act

• Stamp Act

Legal boundaries were established for the sale of land in Kansas through the

• Public Land Survey System

• Public Librarian Splendor in Silence

• Peoples Learn Startling Stuff

• Pupils Learning Science Society

American-born who saw great economic and social opportunity

• moved to Kansas before the bleeding Kansas

• moved to Kansas and were outraged by the lack of slavery

• moved to Kansas after the Civil War

• moved to Kansas to build steam engine factories.

Abbie Bright traveled to her brother's claim in Kansas

• on a bicycle, walking when it became too bumpy

• 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

• days/weeks of endless gale force winds

• extreme hot in the summer and extreme cold in the winter

• all of these were hardships in Kansas

Buffalo chips were gathered as fuel because

• they had a unique methane content that made them burn super hot

• there was very limited access to wood

• they were lighter weight than logs

• the sweet prarie grass in their diet, it smelled of sweet wild flowers

Nicodemus was a

• settlement in Kansas built by newly freed African-Americans

• prophet in the Old Testament

• both of these are correct

• neither of these are correct