Vocab
Market
Who is James J Hill
A businessman who owned a railroad
Subsistence farming
Producing enough food to feed ones own family
What happened in 1878
A team of ox and wagons came to stop a wide stretch of prairie
The attracted immigrants and encouraged..
Settlement
The practice of producing a variety of crops
Diversified farming
Who is Caroline Arabella Hall?
Oliver Kelleys Neice
What would graners gather for?
Cooperatives
Why did the Tainters go to Lincoln Country?
To start a new life
Railroads transform...
The entire state
What does Grange mean?
A nation wide organization where farmers talk abt beliefs
How many local Granges were they in 1869
36 Granges
When were many railroads put out of business?
In the 1900s
Enormous clouds of grasshoppers..
Blocked the sun and destroyed crops
Who gave the railroad company millions of acres of land?
The Government
To order/adjust something to change how it works
Regulate
What is a land speculator?
Someone who buys/sells land
What was the first export crop to effect the economy?
King wheat
what type of stories did the Tainters tell?
Life on the prairie during early years
The Grangers played an important role in..
Assisting Farmers
An organization formed to help people buy/sell goods
Whos Oliver Kelley?
He is someone who started a farm to educate kids
What would grangers wear?
Buttons to show their role
In the winter kids had fun by..
Sliding down snow covered roof tops
Who cheated the farmers?
Companies inspectors