Vocabulary
migration to a place that is caused by the stories of people who have already migrated there
chain migration
African Americans were now free but still faced what in the south and sometimes in the north?
discrimination
The Nicodemus Town Company advertised itself as
"The _________ Colored Colony in America."
largest
From what book in the Bible did the word Exodusters come from?
Exodus
What was the smallest group of immigrants that came to Kansas?
Mexicans
a mass migration of people, often of one religious or ethnic group
exodus
If you were a tenant farmer the amount of crops you gave the landowner stayed the ___________ each year.
same
The towns first group of African Americans were settlers from Kentucky. How many of them were there?
350
Exodusters were usually ________ than the first black settlers.
poorer
What was the largest group of immigrants that came to Kansas
German
an extreme food shortage where many people do not have enough to eat
famine
Kansas advertised as a good place for who to settle here?
African Americans
They advertised there would be plenty of what, but that was not true.
timber/wood
Name me one of the rivers thousand of Exoduster came up on.
Missouri or Mississippi
The Topeka Turnverein was what kind of club?
gymnastics club
an amount produced
yield
From the end of the Civil War up to 1890 the population of Kansas grew by what percent?
90
When they first got to Nicodemus they were to late to what?
plant crops
When they Exoduster arrived they had no what?
Place to live/stay/go
The French settlement of Silkville planted mulberry _________ and imported silk ________ to make the silk.
tree/worms
a farming system where a farmer rents a plot of land and a house from a landowner
tenant farming
What was the name of the well known black community in Kansas.
Nicodemus
Nicodemus was developed by who?
land speculators
started a relief fund
Immigrants settled in Kansas City to work in the meat-packing plant. They built their church and home on a hill. What was the name of that hill?
Strawberry Hill