Land and Farming
This is the term for a map showing how land is divided into lots.
What is a plat?
A large group of people leaving one place for another is called this.
What is an exodus?
A document that allows a business or colony to be started is called this.
What is a charter?
Using machines instead of people or animals for work is called this.
What is mechanizing?
This nickname refers to dried cow dung used as fuel on the Plains.
What are buffalo chips?
Farming where people rent land and pay with crops is called this.
What is tenant farming?
When families move to the same new place over time, it’s called this.
What is chain migration?
When one person or company controls all of a product or service, it is called this.
What is a monopoly?
These African American troops were stationed on the Kansas frontier after the Civil War.
Who are the Buffalo Soldiers?
These houses were built from local materials like sod due to the lack of wood on the Plains.
What are sod houses?
This is the process of separating grains or seeds from plants after harvesting.
What is threshing?
A person who avoids war and promotes peaceful solutions is called this.
What is a pacifist?
Money or help from the government to support a business or project is called this.
What is a subsidy?
These treaties aimed to establish peace between Native Americans and settlers in 1867.
What are the Medicine Lodge Peace Treaties?
This act of 1862 offered 160 acres of land to settlers willing to farm it for five years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The amount of crops or goods produced on farmland is called this.
What is yield?
This word describes a severe lack of food that affects many people.
What is famine?
A person required to do something because of a rule or promise is described as this.
What is obligated?
This 1864 event involved U.S. troops attacking a peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho village.
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
This nickname refers to the towns where cattle drives ended, such as Dodge City.
What are cowtowns?
A person who lives on land without legal permission is called this.
What is a squatter?
A skilled public speaker who can inspire or influence others is called this.
What is an orator?
During an outbreak of disease, people may be isolated in this to prevent spreading illness.
What is quarantine?
Machines introduced to Kansas farms replaced the need for this type of unpaid labor.
What is human or animal labor?
Farmers who mechanized their farms could rely less on these, who rented and worked their land.
What are tenant farmers?