Homesteaders

Question 0

When was the Timber Culture Act passed? What did it say?

Answer 0

1873, gave 160 acres more if trees were planted on 40

Question 1

When was the Homestead Act passed? What did it say?

Answer 1

Gave 169 acres to family free if they lived and farmed on it for 5 years- 1862

Question 2

What was the Desert Act? When was it passed?

Answer 2

Gave right to buy 640 acre cheaply where rainfall was a particular problem, 1877

Question 3

When was the American Civil War?

Answer 3

1861-1865

Question 4

What was the transcontinental railroad. When was it completed?

Answer 4

A train linking East to West, 1860s

Question 5

Why did transcontinental railroad make land cheaper?

Answer 5

Railroad companies sold land either side off at low prices, easy to get to plains

Question 6

What problems did homesteaders face?

Answer 6

Water shortage, extreme weather, fuel, dirt and disease, lack of building materials, protecting crops, ploughing, growing crops, natural hazards

Question 7

What helped solve some problems encountered by homesteaders on the Plains?

Answer 7

Windmills for water (first in 1874), dry farming, growing surplus, hard winter wheat, barbed wire (invented in 1874 by Glidden), sod-buster, other machinery, hard work

Question 8

What were there houses?

Answer 8

Sod housed- made of mud