Ch 10 Sodbusters

name for farmers

• sodbusters
• Dirt Diggers
• Ranchers
• Weed Ropers

an organization that tried to help farmers

• the Grange
• Farmers Association
• Farmers Guild
• Agricultural Trust

type of farming where you grown enough to feed your family

• subsistence farming
• traditional
• basic
• beginner

1862 law that helped people get farm land at a low cost

• Homestead Act
• Farmstead Act
• Build A Farm Law
• Ranch Act

investors hoping to buy land for a low price and sell it for a high price

• land speculators
• urban speculators
• realtors
• rural speculators

Producing a variety of crops and livestock on one farm

• diversified farming
• subsistence
• planters
• aggressive

Minnesota became a state in this year

• 1858
• 1848
• 1852
• 1842

Minnesota farmer and one of the Founders of the National Grange

• Oliver Kelley
• Kelly Oliver
• Oliver Tractor
• Oliver Agronomy

railroad from Duluth to Seattle

• Northern Pacific Railroad
• Southern Pacific
• Western Pacific
• General Pacific

What did Joseph Glidden invent

• barbed wire
• tractors
• fertilizers
• 14 row planter