Ch 5 Review

_____ 1. Cultivating farmland owned by someone else

• Homestead Act

• Preemption Act

• Timber Culture Act

• tenant farming

_____ 2. 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

_____ 3. A method to obtain land without having to purchase it by living on it and making improvements over a 5 year period

• Homestead Act

• Preemption Act

• Timber Culture Act

• tenant farming

_____ 4. 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

5. Americans who lived on Indian lands were called ___________________________.

6. More than 5,000 Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche met with representatives of the U.S. government to make peace at ___________________________.

7. The massacre of Plains Indians by the Colorado Volunteer Regiments occurred at ________________________________ and added to the American Indians distrust of the United States.

8. The 9th and 10th Cavalries were made up of African American soldiers who became known as __________________________________.

9. The coming of the ______________________ helped to end the frontier in Kansas

_____ 10. It was important to survey public lands in Kansas so that:

• roads and highways could be built

• legal boundaries could be established

• lakes and rivers could be redirected

• travel guides for immigrants could be produced