Chapter 6 Review

Homestead Act

• cultivating farmland owned by someone else

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

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

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

Preemption Act

• cultivating farmland owned by someone else

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

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

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

Timber Culture Act

• cultivating farmland owned by someone else

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

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

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

tenant farming

• cultivating farmland owned by someone else

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

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

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

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

• roads and highways could be build

• 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 easter United States

Abbie Bright traveled to her brothers 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

• Exodusters and European immigrants

• barbed wire and fences

• land 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 that logs

• farmers needed to clear them from their fields

Nicodemus was settled by:

• French silk farmers

• Germans how had followed Catherine the Great to Russia

• Mexican railroad workers

• freed slaves from Kentucky