Planted in the spring and harvested in the summer.
What is spring wheat?
100
North Dakota's capital was created in this city.
What is Bismarck?
100
A business that sold a large variety of goods needed by settlers.
What is a general store?
100
Uncontrollable flames that would appear in dry times in Dakota.
What are prairie fires?
200
Most cattle bonanzas were located here.
What is the Badlands?
200
Most bonanza farms were located in this valley.
What is the Red River Valley?
200
Held on July 4, 1889 in Bismarck, this is when delegates created a plan for government in North Dakota.
What is the Constitutional Convention?
200
Homes built with tar paper.
What are claim shanties?
200
Gave 160 acres to individuals in certain Western states if they agreed to plant one fourth of it with trees.
What is the Timber Culture Act?
300
He was hired to sell bonds to get the Northern Pacific line built, but failed when the railroad went bankrupt, allowing the land to instead be used for farming.
Who is Jay Cooke?
300
President of Northern Pacific who helped create the first bonanza farm.
Who is George Cass?
300
his part of the new constitution designated the locations of various state schools and institutions.
What is Article XIX?
300
Immigrants who settled mostly in the eastern and northern parts of North Dakota.
Who are the Norwegians?
300
Immigrant group who settled mainly in the central and south central parts of North Dakota.
Who are the German-Russians?
400
Bonanza farms were broken up into these, usually of 5000 acres of less, to make the bonanza farm more manageable.
What are divisions?
400
Orders for bonanza farm employees came from here.
What are headquarters?
400
The bill that authorized the creation of the state of North Dakota in 1889, along with South Dakota, Montana and Washington.
What is the Omnibus?
400
Organization of farmers and others who wanted to correct the political and economic problems of those who lived in Dakota Territory.
What is the Dakota Farmers' Alliance?
400
These were the easiest homes to construct out on the frontier.
What are sod houses?
500
Bonanza farms proved this about Dakota Territory.
What is that the land was fertile and spring wheat could be grown?
500
This is why people began to invest in land in Dakota Territory during the time of the bonanza farms.
What is because investors believed if bonanza farms were successful, people would move to the area and land prices would rise?
500
North Dakota became this number state.
What is the 39th?
500
This was evidence that the effort to promote settlement in Dakota Territory was successful.
What is the population in Dakota went up dramatically?