Chapter 5-2 Settling Great Plains
A settler recruited in Europe by a railroad company
An African-American settler originally from the South
A settler who claimed land in Oklahoma by squatting on it
A settler who farmed land given by the federal government
A home made out of prairie turf
An invention that increased farm production
A loan made to frontier farmers by the federal government
A person who bought frontier land hoping to resell it at a profit
Farm claimed in the Oklahoma land rush
Farm given away by the federal government
Farm taken olver by a bank due to bankruptcy
Massive single-crop farm owned by railroad companies and private investors
The land was too difficult to farm
Few settlers wanted to move West at the time
Most of it was taken by people seeking profit
The government put too many restrictions on its use
Gattling gun
Steel plow
Windmill
Barbed wire
Homestead Act--160 acres of free land to head of household
Morrill Act--federal land given to states to fifnance agricultural colleges
Hatch Act--established agricultural experiment stations
Yellowstone National Park Act--foreced railroads to give up their claims to western land holdings
A Jim Crow
An exoduster
Bonanzas
Sooners