Early Settlers - Homesteaders

Question 1

what sort of people moved west in 1865? (3)

Answer 1

freed slaves
european immigrants
other americans

Question 2

what was the homestead act? date?

Answer 2

1862-
allowed people to claim 160 acres of free land
if they lived and worked on the plains fo 5 years

Question 3

what was the Timber culture act? date?

Answer 3

1873-

further 160 acres of land provided they planted 40 acres of trees

Question 4

what was the desert land act? date?

Answer 4

1877-

gave settlers right to buy 640 acres of land cus of lack of rain fall

Question 5

what other three reasons made homesteaders move west?

Answer 5

railroads
manifest destiny
stories passed on

Question 6

why did the civil war make people go west?

Answer 6

after the civil war, soldiers wanted to start a new life and newly freed slaves wanted a new life too

Question 7

what pushed the homesteaders from the east? ( 5 reasons)

Answer 7

cramped living conditions 
industrial cities
expensive living places
conflict - war
lack of fertile land for crops

Question 8

when was the Johnson County war?

Answer 8

1892

Question 9

who was it between?

Answer 9

first farmers and cattle barons

Question 10

what did they fight over ( 3 reasons)

Answer 10

fencing, water holes and cattle

Question 11

who won the war?

Answer 11

the farmers