MN History Chapter 10 Key Terms

What is the practice of producing enough food to feed one's own family, but not enough to sell at a market?

• Commercial farming

• Subsistence farming

• Industrial farming

• Organic farming

What did the Homestead Act of 1862 provide?

• Free education for settlers

• Up to 160 acres of land to settlers

• Free transportation for settlers

• Free livestock for settlers

Who is a land speculator?

• Someone who buys and sells land for profit

• Someone who builds houses on land

• Someone who plants crops on land

• Someone who rents land to farmers

What is a market?

• A place where only food is sold

• An area where people buy and sell goods and services

• A place where only clothes are sold

• An area where only services are provided

What is diversified farming?

• Growing only one type of crop

• Raising only livestock

• Producing a variety of crops and livestock

• Farming without using any machinery

What is the Grange?

• A local club for farmers

• A nationwide organization for farmers

• A government agency for agriculture

• A private company for selling seeds

What is a cooperative?

• A single farmer working alone

• An organization formed to help its members buy or sell products

• A government-run farm

• A private company selling farm equipment

What does it mean to regulate something?

• To ignore it

• To control or adjust it

• To destroy it

• To sell it