This law was passed to give 160 acres of land to settlers in the plains.
What is the Homestead Act?
100
A row of trees that blocks the wind.
What is a windbreak?
100
Corn is grown in this type of climate.
What is a rainy climate?
100
Areas of flat or rolling land covered with wildflowers or grasses.
What are prairies?
100
Urban or rural - the place where more people live.
What is rural?
200
The pioneers had to do evrything themselves since there were no stores on the prairie. They were __________.
What is self-sufficient?
200
The amount of a product for sale.
What is the supply?
200
Wheat is grown in this type of climate.
What is a dry climate?
200
The name of the Sioux leader who is being honored in the Black Hills and the year the monument began.
Who is Crazy Horse and 1948?
200
The plain state that has the highest total population.
What is Missouri?
300
What did the pioneers and Native Americans do to change their lives in order to fit their surroundings?
What is adapt?
300
A person who buys a product or service.
What is a consumer?
300
The preparing of meat for stores is this industry.
What is the meat-packing industry.
300
The two materials sued to make tepees.
What are wooden poles and animal skins?
300
The one state that has the closest population between urban and rural.
What is Kansas?
400
Three ways buffalos were used by Sioux Indians on the plains.
What is eating the meat, using the bones for tools, making clothing from the hides, and using the chips to make fires.
400
The growth of cities.
What is urbanization?
400
An area of land in the country or near farms.
What is a rural area?
400
Money was given to these groups through the Homestead Act to improve transportation.
What are railroad companies?
400
How do the popluations of Missouri and Iowa compare?
Both have more urban than rural residents, Missouri has twice as many rural residents as Iowa, Missouri has almost twice as many urban residents as Iowa.
500
The Homestead Act of 1862 required settlers to do this to keep their land.
What is live there for 5 years and make improvements?
500
Someone who starts a new business.
What is an entrepreneur?
500
In the summer time many people want to buy watermelons. This is term is a need or desire to buy products.
What is a demand?
500
Something that always remains in the same place.
What is permanant?
500
The number of total urban residents in the great plains.