Farming
Government
Misc.
100
Planting seeds deep in ground where there is enough moisture for them to grow.
What is dry farming?
100
When the government opened up one of the last territories for settlement.
What is the Oklahoma Land Rush?
100
He believed that the frontier had provided a "safety-valve of social discontient".
Who is Fredrick Jackson Turner?
200
Those who plowed the plains.
What is sodbusters?
200
In 1890 this government reported that there was no longer a true frontier left in America.
What is Census Bureau?
200
They brought lumber and brick to replace sod as a building material, as well as coal for fuel.
What is railroads?
300
Farms that covered up to 50,000 acres and yielded big profits.
What are Bonanza farms?
300
They knocked kernals lose from stalks.
What is Threashing machines?
400
Began at the Eastern edge of the Great Plains and encompassed much of the Dakotas and parts of Nebraska & Kansas.
What is the Wheat Belt?
500
How farmers tried to make it through difficult times.
What is mortgaging?
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