Chapter Six Social Studies

Question 1

5 Ways to Get Land In Kansas (Homestead Act)

Answer 1

1. 21 years old and U.S. citizen (planning to become one)
2. 160 Acres
3. Pay $10 fee
4. Live and improve land for five years
5. Owned land if wanted to buy before five years pay $1.25 per Acre

Question 2

1. Couldn’t afford to own and take care of own farm

2. Hoped to save enough to get their own landTenant

Answer 2

Tenant Farming (Taking care of someone else farm renter)

Question 3

1. Squatter could take up residence on public lands and have 1st chance at buying the land from the U.S. Gov after 14 months
2. 160 Acres for 1.25 an Acre

Answer 3

Preemption Act

Question 4

1. $1.60 an Acre plant trees did not have to live on land $1.25 Acre

Answer 4

Timber Culture Act

Question 5

Adapting to the plains

Answer 5

Western KS - Few trees, short grasslands, less water

Eastern KS - Trees, Better Soil, more water

Question 6

Hardships

Answer 6

1. Depression (because of unemployment)
2. Droughts and Blizzards
3. Grasshoppers

Question 7

Adapting (Making due with what you have)

Answer 7

1. Dug outs and Sod houses because of lack of trees
2. Barbed wire for fences instead of wood
3. Buffalo chips (dried manure) for burning
4. Deep wells, Windmills, and irrigation

Question 8

Majority of migrants to Kansas Came from?

Answer 8

America (The States) They were American Born.

Question 9

Town in Western Kansas settled by African Americans in Kansas.

Answer 9

Nicodemus

Question 10

Former Slave that encouraged African Americas to settle in Kansas and develop industries and businesses. Did not work out so he encouraged African Americans to leave the country

Answer 10

Benjamin “Pap” Singleton

Question 11

Very poor African Americans from the Deep South who traveled up the river and settled in the areas of Wyandotte and Aitchison

Answer 11

Exodusters

Question 12

Survey

Answer 12

To know who has the exact amount (coordinates) of certain land is called?

Question 13

What was a pull Factor for the French

Answer 13

They wanted to sell silk in Silkville

Question 14

What did the french make?

Answer 14

Made Fine Silk in the Settlement of Silkville

Question 15

What was a pull factor for the Sweden

Answer 15

They had a POTATO famine

Question 16

Settled in Kansas in an area known as the Little Balkans worked in Coal Mines

Answer 16

Southern Europe