Ch 5 Review

_____ 1. Cultivating farmland owned by someone else

_____ 2. A method that allowed a squatter to purchase public land he had lived on after 14 months

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

_____ 4. A method to obtain land by planting a large number of trees and then purchasing that land at $1.25 an acre

5. Americans who lived on Indian lands were called (a)   .

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

7. The massacre of Plains Indians by the Colorado Volunteer Regiments occurred at (a)   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 (a)   helped to end the frontier in Kansas

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