Unit 3 quizizz

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

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.

Benjamin "Pap" Singleton was a:

• Land surveyor who helped to solve land disputes in kansas.

• Land speculator and promoter who encouraged African Americans to come to Kansas.

• Railroad worker who wen to Tussia to recruit Mennonites to come to Kansas.

• Ferry operator on the Oregon-California Trail.

Exodusters was the name given to:

• American Indians who were moved out of Kansas into Oklahoma Territory.

• European immigrants who came to Kansas in covered wagons.

• African Americans from the Deep South who came to Kansas during a second wave of immigration.

• Politicians in the new state of Kansas.

Silkville was settled by:

• Swedish immigrants who wanted to farm.

• Skilled silk workers from France.

• Freed slaves from the South.

• German musicians from Hanover.