Study Guide for Kansas History Test over Chapter 6
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| What was the Homestead Act? | The law that allowed someone to claim 160 acres of public land as long as they lived on it for five years, made improvements, and paid a $10 fee?
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| What did a tenant farmer do? | They cultivated, or worked, someone else's land as a renter.
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| What did the Preemption Act allow settlers to do? | They could buy land they had "squatted" on after 14 months for as little as $1.25 per acre.
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| What did the Timber Culture Act do? | Allowed farmers to claim up to 160 acres of land by planting a large number of trees on the land and then buying that land for $1.25 per acre.
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| Why was it important to survey public lands in Kansas? | So that legal boundaries could be established
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| Most of the people who moved to Kansas after the Civil War were... | people born in America who saw great opportunities in Kansas.
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| How did Abbie Bright travel to her brother's claim in Kansas? | By train and stagecoach
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| Why did African-Americans leaving the South think Kansas was a good place to settle? | It was a symbol of the Promised Land
Kansas fought against slavery
John Brown, Lincoln, and the Republicans symbolized freedom to them
The Homestead Act opened up cheap land
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| What are three ways that settlers adapted to the lack of trees in Kansas? | They built sod homes or dugouts.
They used buffalo chips or cow chips for fuel.
They used barbed wire and limestone posts for fencing.
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| Many immigrants from the British Isles left their homeland to... | escape a strong class system with no opportunities for advancement
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| What was the reason many Germans from Russia immigrated to Kansas? | because they had pacifist beliefs and did not want to serve in the military
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| Which immigrant group makes up the largest group of foreign-born immigrants in Kansas? | Germans
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| African-Americans from the Deep South who came to Kansas during a second wave of immigration were called... | Exodusters
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| Who was the African-American land speculator and promoter who encouraged African Americans to come to Kansas? | Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
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| Most of the people who settled in Nicodemus, Kansas were... | freed slaves from Kentucky
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| Why did settlers gather buffalo chips? | For fuel since wood was scarce.
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| Skilled silk workers from France settled what Kansas town? | Silkville
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| The railroads recruited immigrants from what country to maintain the railroad lines? | Mexico
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| The area in southeastern Kansas known as the "Little Balkans" attracted immigrants from southeastern Europe to work in the... | coal mines
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| Immigrants from what nation began moving to Kansas soon after we became a state because they were suffering from a famine and they saw Kansas as the land of the future? | Sweden
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