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Immigrants
Life on the plains
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Ways to get land
little this and that
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THe majority of of the people who came here to Kansas after the Civil War were from.
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Depressions
What were hard economic times during the early years of Kansas settlement?
100
Abbie Bright
She rode to Kansas in a stagecoach and pony?
100
160 to claim - $10 dollars per acre
What is the Homestead Act?
100
corn cobs, prairie grass, buffalo chips
Name two alternative fuels used on the Kansas prairie?
200
Many African-American found these reasons to leave the south.
What is economic, political, social reasons for leaving?
200
Dugouts
What was the adaptation of digging a house into the side of a hill called?
200
Pap Singleton
Man who brought many African - Americans to settle in Kansas.
200
If a homesteader failed at farming in Kansas he could become a ___________ farmer. That means he works someone elses land.
What is Tennant?
200
Mexico
Where is the largest population of immigrants coming from currently?
300
Freed slaves from Kentucky settled here in northwest Kansas.
What is Nicodemus?
300
The "adobe house" in Hillsboro
What and where is the only original example of a sod house in the United States?
300
Earnest de Bouissiere
Who was the French businessman who developed the silk industry in Kansas?
300
take up residence on public land, 160 acres, $1.25 per acre, 14 months on the land
What is Preemption Act?
300
Lindsborg
Where did the Swedish immigrants settle?
400
second wave of African-American settlers were called this
What are Exodusters?
400
Bill Self
Who is the basketball coach for KU?
400
claim up to 160 acres, plant a large number of trees, if following the rules you could buy land for $1.25 per acre.
What is Timber Culture Act?
400
one square mile
What is a section of land?
500
Germans from Russia that came to Kansas and settled in the Hillsboro area are called.
What are Mennonites
500
Barbed wire and limestone
What one item ended the open prairie in Kansas and what were posts made from in northwest Kansas?
500
Bill Snyder
Who has the largest football stadium named after him in Kansas?
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This person settled on public land in order to farm it live on it.
What is a squatter?
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640, 160
How many acres are in a section? a quarter?