Vocabulary
To change from work done by humans or animals, to work done by machines
What is mechanize
The main reason frontier forts were built
What is to protect whites
The name of the disease brought to Kansas by cattle in Texas
What is Texas Fever
The reason for surveying land
What is setting legal boundaries of property
The distance of the cattle drives from TX to KS
What is 750 miles
A person who occupies land or property they do not own
What is a squatter
The person who was responsible for the Sand Creek Massacre
Who is Colonel Chivington
The first railroad line in Kansas
What is a 5 mile line between 2 towns
The material settlers in Kansas used for fuel instead of wood, hay, or corn cobs
What is buffalo chips (dried manure)
The mode(s) of transportation used in the journey to Kansas
What is trains and stagecoaches
Financial assistance given by a government to a person or group
What is subsidy
The reason Medicine Lodge was chosen as the location for the peace treaties
What is no army or settlers nearby (considered sacred and peaceful)
The reason people in Kansas were happy about the railroads
What is goods could ship easier and faster
The way settlers got water from underground to their fields
What is using a windmill to pump water from wells, then moving the water from a pond to ditches
The main reason Fred Harvey is famous
What is a successful restaurant chain (Harvey House)
A person who believes that war and violence is wrong, and refuses to participate in either
What is a pacifist
The reason General Hancock set fire to Native American villages
What is he assumed they wouldn't negotiate peace
The way for Kansas government to keep infected cattle away from healthy cattle
What is a quarantine line west of McPherson
The reason winter wheat became popular
What is summer what was destroyed by bugs
The difference between Exodusters and earlier African Americans who settled in Kansas
What is the Exodusters were much poorer
What is chain migration
The person or group Chief Ten Bears claims is responsible for starting the conflicts with Native Americans (book pg. 163)
Who is the U.S. government
The act of providing land grants of public lands to railroad companies
What is the Pacific Railroad Act
The act of claiming 160 acres of land and planting the required amount of trees
What is the Timber Culture Act
List three immigrant groups that came to Kansas
What is German, British, Swedish, Croatian, African American, Mexican, Czech, French