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100
This act encouraged settlement on the Great Plains in 1862.
What is Homestead Act?
100
This is a tract of public land that an individual could file for a $10 registration fee.
What is a homestead?
100
By the 1860's, farmers on the Great Plains were using the new steel machines to make dry farming possible.
What are mechanical reapers and steam tractors?
200
This is a way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture.
What is dry farming?
200
During the 1880s many farmers from the midwest moved here to take advantage of the inexpensive land and the new farming technology.
What is the Great Plains?
300
This is a name given to Great Plains farmers?
What is a sodbuster?
300
For this amount of money, an individual could file for a homestead.
What was a $10 registration fee used for?
400
This is a new idea or method.
What is an innovation?
400
Nebraska established this slogan to increase cultivating in the Plains.
What was "Rain follows the plow"?
500
This was the number of years settlers had to live on land in order to gain title of the land.
What is 5 years?