Immigration
Bonanza
Homesteading 1
Homesteading 2
Teddy & Marquis
100
This is what carried most immigrants to Dakota Territory in the later 1800s.
What is the railroad?
100
"Bonanza" means big this.
What are big profits?
100
These were homes made out of earth.
What were sod houses?
100
This was a threat to homesteaders and farmers when conditions were dry.
What is a prairie fire?
100
This was the name of the Marquis's wife.
What is Medora?
200
Some immigrants came from this country to north of North Dakota.
What is Canada?
200
They tied wheat into bundles.
Who are binders?
200
Homes made from digging into the side of a hill or bank of a stream.
What are dugouts?
200
The Timber Culture Act guaranteed land to homesteaders if they agreed to do this.
What is grow 1/4 of the land with trees?
200
Theodore Roosevelt came west for what reasons?
What is for hunting, adventure or to escape the tragedy of the deaths of his wife and mother?
300
Most Norwegian immigrants settled in these areas of North Dakota.
What is the Red River Valley?
300
They stacked the wheat.
Who are shockers?
300
These pieces of land are divided into 36 sections.
What are townships?
300
The Homestead Act promised 160 acres of land if a homesteader did this.
What is "improve" the land over five years?
300
This is one of the ranches Roosevelt bought.
What is the Elkhorn or the Maltese Cross Ranch?
400
This is where most Germans and German-Russians settled in North Dakota.
What is the central part of North Dakota?
400
He was president of the Northern Pacific Railroad who helped start one of the first bonanza farms.
Who is George Cass?
400
Most of the life of homesteaders centered around this.
What is the home?
400
These were tar paper shacks.
What are claim shanties?
400
This is what brought an end to the cattle bonanza farms, like the Marquis's ranch, in 1886-1887.
What is a blizzard?
500
By this year, the population of North Dakota had grown to 190,000.
What is 1890?
500
Cattle bonanzas wer created to the west of this river.
What is the Missouri River?
500
This is why general stores were so important to homesteaders.
What is that they could buy whatever they needed?
500
This is why many homesteaders failed at farming.
What is because they didn't know how to farm or were unprepared for the environment?
500
This was the year Theodore Roosevelt first came to Dakota Territory.
What is 1883?
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