Chapter 5; Sect. 2; Pp.214-218ah
Chapter 5-2 Settling Great Plains
- 1.A homesteader is best described as
- A.
A settler recruited in Europe by a railroad company
- B.
An African-American settler originally from the South
- C.
A settler who claimed land in Oklahoma by squatting on it
- D.
A settler who farmed land given by the federal government
- 2.A soddy is
- A.
A home made out of prairie turf
- B.
An invention that increased farm production
- C.
A loan made to frontier farmers by the federal government
- D.
A person who bought frontier land hoping to resell it at a profit
- 3.A bonanza farm is a
- A.
Farm claimed in the Oklahoma land rush
- B.
Farm given away by the federal government
- C.
Farm taken olver by a bank due to bankruptcy
- D.
Massive single-crop farm owned by railroad companies and private investors
- 4.Why did little of the free land offered by the Homestead Act end up being claimed by settlers?
- A.
The land was too difficult to farm
- B.
Few settlers wanted to move West at the time
- C.
Most of it was taken by people seeking profit
- D.
The government put too many restrictions on its use
- 5.All of the following helped tame the prairie except:
- A.
Gattling gun
- B.
Steel plow
- C.
Windmill
- D.
Barbed wire
- 6.Which of the following are not matched correctly?
- A.
Homestead Act--160 acres of free land to head of household
- B.
Morrill Act--federal land given to states to fifnance agricultural colleges
- C.
Hatch Act--established agricultural experiment stations
- D.
Yellowstone National Park Act--foreced railroads to give up their claims to western land holdings
- 7.An African-American who left the discrimination in the South for free land out West was called
- A.
A Jim Crow
- B.
An exoduster
- C.
Bonanzas
- D.
Sooners
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