settling the Great plains

The Homestead Act encouraged people to move West because it..

• established ranching towns for cattle drivers.
• offered free land to those willing to farm it.
• offered land to gold prospectors.
• promised protection from Native Americans.

Native Americans living on the Great Plains relied on which of the following to meet many of their basic needs?

• Cotton
• Deer
• Buffalo
• Gold

What effect did the use of barbed wire to fence off land on the open range have on cattle ranching?

• It harmed cattle, reducing the number that made it to market.

• It blocked cattle trails, making it difficult to get cattle to market.

• It prevented cattle from finding food, reducing the number of cattle that survived each year.

• It required too much effort to maintain, so ranchers abandoned their ranches.

African Americans that moved west to claim land under the Homestead act of 1862 were called _____

• Freedmen
• Exodusters
• Westies
• Reconstruction

What did the settlers use to build their houses out of?

• trees

• grass

• sod

• buffalo skins

Why did many settlers on the Great Plains build their first house from sod instead of wood?

• Wood was very scarce on the Great Plains
• Sod is a better product
• Sod would hold better

Land set aside for Native Americans to live on.

• farm cooperative
• sooner
• Chisholm Trail
• reservation

Settlers were able to claim 160 acres in the Great Plains as a result of the

• Homestead Act
• Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Dawes Act
• Wounded Knee Treaty

Planting seeds deep into the ground, where there is more moisture is a method called _______________________.

• Hydraulic Mining

• Sodbusting

• Dry Farming

• Wet Farming

The term "sodbusters" refers to..

• railroad workers.
• Great Plains farmers.
• Oklahomans.
• cowhands.