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Vocabulary
How much land?
Let's buy a Farm
European Geography
This and That
100
to move from one place to another
What is migrate?
100
piece of land about the size of a football field
What is an a acre?
100
the size of a pioneers farm
What is 80 acres?
100
country from which largest group of Iowa immigrants came from
What is Germany?
100
3 substitutes for wood fuel
What are cow chips, dried grass, corn cobs, and coal?
200
people who are born in a different country and become citizens of another country
What is immigrant?
200
piece of land that is 1 mile x 1 mile
What is a section?
200
$1.25/acre or $100
What is the cost a pioneer's farm?
200
Name the 4 Scandinavian countries.
What is Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark?
200
4 modes of transportation for getting to Iowa
What are steamship, steamboat, stagecoach, covered wagon, railroad, walking?
300
clumps of earth with grass and roots
What is sod?
300
piece of land that measures 6 miles x 6 miles
What is a township?
300
the reason immigrants came to Iowa
What is fertile soil?
300
European country shaped like a lady's high heel boot
What is Italy?
300
How long might it take to get from Europe to Iowa?
What is 9 weeks?
400
dried cow manure
What are cow chips?
400
piece of land that measure approximately 24 miles by 24 miles
What is a county?
400
a farm near this section of land would make going to school easier for your children
What is section 16?
400
Name 4 countries of the British Isles.
What is Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales?
400
Region of Iowa where pioneers had to build sod houses.
What is northwest Iowa?
500
measure and map the land
What is survey?
500
piece of land that is 160 acres
What is a "quarter"?
500
3 other ways you could get Iowa farmland
What is buy it from the railroad, claim squatter's rights, and serve in the army?
500
Another name for Holland
What is the Netherlands?
500
worst danger on the prairie
What is a prairie fire?