vocabulario
homestead
Changes on the farm
Railroad ya or neh
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100
Families who produce enogh food to feed themselves only, but not to sell at a market.
What is subsistence farming?
100
An 1862 law that provided up to 160 acres of land to settlers who would live on it and farm it for 5 years.
What is the homestead act?
100
A group of farming ladies and gents who got together for social lectures on faming topics to share their concerns and questions.
What are the Granges?
100
30,000miles
How many railroad miles crossed MN 20 years after 1860?
100
Carry firewood, wedding the garden, gathering eggs, and bringing in the cows for milking.
What was the children's job on the farm?
200
The practice of producing a variety of crops and livestock.
What is diversified farming?
200
Single women.
Who also Homesteaded?
200
true or false. the Grangers wanted to include politics.
What is False?
200
Brought settelers, mail, and goods.
What were three reasons why it was good when trains came into small towns?
200
$14
How much was the registration fee for a homestead?
300
An orginization formed to buy or sell products a large group in order to get better prices.
What is cooperative?
300
True or false. at the beginning the Grangers looked forward to the production of railroads.
What is true?
300
Charged more for shipping, storring crops, and cheated farmers.
Whatdid railroads do to make people unhappy?
300
You could loose all your life's savings.
Why was land speculating not a solid career?
400
Somebody who buys or sells land, hoping to make a profit, often at great finacial risk.
What is a land speculator?
400
They would sign a contract saying they reject all their traditional ways and ancestors' religon.
How could Native Americans get a homestead?
400
it cost this much to start a farm.
What is about $2,500?
400
THe government gave land to the railroads for free.
How did the railroads get land?
400
A railroad company owner.
Who was James J. Hill?
500
The thick top layer of grasses and their roots used for housing and insulation.
What is sod and what is it used for?
500
the reason why homesteaders planted trees.
Why is because they beileved it would cause more rain/humidity.
500
Five years after 1869, there were this many Granges in Minnesota.
What is 538 Granges?
500
James J. Hill
Who was the biggest competiter in railroad buissness?
500
coal mines, iron mines waterpower facilities, and great lakes steamships
What other kinds of industries did James J. Hill own?
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