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Settlers and Immigrants
Vocabulary
Woodland and Prairie
Surveying and Purchasing Land
Misc.
100
What years did the settlers begin to come to Iowa.
What is 1830's
100
Thousands of people left the East to live in new homes in the West?
What is 1800's nineteenth century.
100
What did people mostly view when they came to Iowa?
What is the Prairie.
100
What did the the government do before people could buy land?
Survey
100
What did some families use as fuel?
What is Dry cow manure
200
What states did southerns come from in the 1840's
What is Kentucky, Virginia, and Missouri?
200
The first people to settle in a area?
What is Pioneers.
200
Once settlers arrived in Iowa they could no longer practice what skill?
What is Woodcraft.
200
How much did people pay normal per acre
$1.25
200
What did settlers use for fence?
What is Hedge.
300
Where did immigrants come from?
What is Germany, Holland, British Isles, and Scandinavian Countries
300
A house made of clumps of Earth and roots?
What is Sod house.
300
In the 1870's pioneers begin to move where?
What is Northwest Iowa.
300
What were people called that claimed land before people could survey it?
What is Squatter.
300
What did settlers do to build houses with?
What is sod
400
What did people come in?
What is covered wagons, railroads, stagecoach, and steamboats.
400
A survey the government does to see the population of an area?
What is Cenus
400
In addition to lack of timber Iowa's early settlers face what problem?
What Is Prairie Fire.
400
What were the first thing people had to do before they came to Iowa?
What is Buy land.
400
What problem did settlers face on the Prairie?
What is Prairie fires
500
Where did the people come from during the Civil War.
What is North Eastern United States?
500
A person that is the first one to claim land?
What is Squatter.
500
John and Sarah Kenyon move where?
What is Delaware county, Iowa
500
What was the normal amount to buy 80 acre's of land in 1830's to 1840's?
What is $100.00
500
What grew on the prairie that settlers liked?
What is Wild Flowers.