Questions 1-12
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100

Why did people avoid farming in the great plains?

Plains are dry and treeless 

100

The homestead act gave how many ___acres of public land to adult men over what age___? How much was this land___ and how long did they have to live there to have it paid for___? 

160

21 years old

1.25

5 years 

100

How many people claimed land under the homestead act for farms in the west? 

400,000

100

What was scarce and a problem for building__? What did they use instead for building?__ This was cut into brick shaped slabs and put into ___ for walls and roofs?

Wood

Sod

Layers

100

In 1874 millions of these swarmed the plains? __

how high did they pile___? 

What was this year known as? __

Grasshoppers 

6 inches deep

The great grasshopper year 

200

What act did president Lincoln sign in 1862

Homestead act 

200

What were the people called that got land under the homestead act? 

Homesteaders 

200

What did the promise of building a better life for give them? 

HOPE 

200

A house made of sod was called?

Soddies 

200

What was a new technology to make prairie life easier with constant winds to pump underground water to the surface?

Windmills

300

Who wanted to become homesteaders from the East? 

African Americans

300

What immigrants from where wanted to become homesteaders? 

Denmark, France, Norway, Russia, Sweden

DFNRS

300

Buffalo grass was tall and made the sod so tough that it broke what___?

Iron Plows

300

What did settlers face for hardships? 

Prarie fires, unpredictable weather and insects 

300

What was dug to water crops? 

Irrigation ditches 

400

How did homesteaders head for the prairie? 

bouncing stage coaches, railroads and crowded Constoga wagons

400

Lydia Toothaker described Kansas terrain as...

grass and sky because there was nothing else and built houses out of sod 

400

New settlers with the hard sod buffalo grass were called?

Sod busters 

400

What did settlers do to stop the spread of a fire

dig trenches 

400

in 1874 what settlers introduced a type of wheat that could survive the plains? 

Russian

500

homesteaders found it was difficult to farm due to? 

lack of trees and water and harsh climate

500

Where did most settlers go because it was dry and not a desert? 

Kansas, Nebraska and Dakota territory 

500

Who invented the steel plow that could bust through the hard sod? What was the plow named? 

James Oliver 

chilled-steel-plow

500

What happened in winter that began suddenly and people froze to death? ___

What happened in the summer that lifted the houses off the ground?___

Blizzard

Tornados 

500

What did Joseph Glidden invent? what did this invention do? 

Barbed wire to keep cattle out of their fields 

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