This was a way to plant seeds deep in the groud where there was lots of moisture.
What is dry farming?
100
Farmers who plowed the Plains.
What are sodbusters?
100
When the government opened one of the last large territories for settlement, thousands of people rushed to stake claims in this event which caused "the closing of the frontier."
What is the Oklahoma Land Rush?
200
Type of Wheat farm that covered up to 50,000 acres of land and yielded big profits.
What is bonanza farms?
200
Began at the eastern edge of the Great Plains and covered much of the Dakotas and parts of Nebraska and Kansas, that farmers took advatage of because of the inexpensive land.
What is the Wheat Belt?
200
This person believed the Frontier had been a safety place.
Who is Frederick Jackson?
300
Large landholders could invest in these two farm machines that made it easier to harvest a large crop.
What are reapers and steam tractors?
300
This struck the Plains in the late 1880's destroying crops and turning soil to dust.
What is drought?
400
These people cultivated about 1/3 of the farms on the Plains.
What are tenant farmers?
500
These people rarely became wealthy but they could be self-sufficient.