Expanding the West : Vocabulary Lesson 2

Able to produce a large amount is...

• appeal

• abundance

• productive

• accumulation

People who settled in the Great Plains and broke up sod to build homes and plants crops were

• Missionaries

• Native Americans

• Sodbusters

• Farmers

A law passed in 1862 to settlers in the Great Plains to receive a 160 acres of land for $18.00.

• Homestead Act

• Housing Act

• Cattle of America

• Lincoln Homestead Act

A settler or a pioneer who took advantage of the Homestead Act in the West was called

• a homesteader

• being aggressive

• being determined

• an adventurer

A long period of low rainfall or no rain

• flood

• monsoon

• drought

• hot weather

The technology of bring water to crops

• Watering the lawn

• rain dance

• irrigation

• build a canal

Crop production without irrigation during a dry season, usually in a region that receives at least 20 inches

• farming

• planting season

• dry farming

• irrigation

Appeal means

• attractive or interesting

• dislike

• peeling an orange

• fresh baked cookies

President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of

(a)  

Homesteaders led difficult lives on the prarie.

• True

• False

• Never

• They had help.