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vocabulary
Chores
People
Money makers
Groups
100
What do you call the act of Congress, signed by Lincoln, which provided up to 160 acres of land to live on and farm for five years?
What is Homestead Act
100
Who was responsible for carrying firewood and water to the homes
Who are children
100
someone who buys then sells land hoping to make a profit
What is land speculator
100
Grown in MN and shipped by railroad to the flour mills in Minneapolis
What is wheat
100
The people grew only what their family needed to survive
What are subsistent farmers
200
Where people buy and sell goods and services. Prices are determined here.
What is Market
200
Who was to gather eggs and milk cows
Who are children
200

Empire Builder

James J Hill


200

People who produced a variety of livestock and crops on their farm

What is diversified farming

200
a person who farms, grows trees, and lives on his land for 5 years
What is a homesteader.
300
To control or adjust something in order to change how it works
What is regulate
300
The outdoor upkeep of buildings and farming
Who is the father
300

a person wo plows the grasses to prepare the land to be be farmed

What is Sodbuster

300
These animals were slow but strong enough to turn over the grasses of the prairies
What are oxen
300

Railroads brought who to North Dakota and Minnesota

Settlers/Immigrants

400
An organization to help members buy or sell their products for better prices
What is cooperative
400
to take care of chickens, wash clothing, make soap, and can fruits and vegetables
Who is the mother
400

The Tainter family began homesteading in this western MN county named for a US President

Who is Lincoln

400
Recruiters were sent to Europe to say the praises of MN by this money maker
What is the railroad
400

Three groups that were immigrating to Minnesota. 

Canadians, Swedes, Norwegians, Germans, Irish and English. 

500
What is 1/640 of a square mile
What is an acre
500

Men had to be more than just farmers. What were other duties?

What are veterinarians, loggers, construction workers, well diggers....etc

500

A group of farmers that formed to share tips for farming. 

The Grange

500
James J Hill's railroad was called
What is Great Northern Railway
500

Since many new settlers came from Europe this crop was easily grown in "hills" on the new fertile lands of MN

Potatoes