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Chapter 6 Review
Review vocab and key concepts from Chapter 6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage. | Famine |
| A pit dug into the ground or on a hillside and used as shelter. | Dugout |
| The act of being made free. | Emancipation |
| To supply dry land with water through pipes, ditches, or streams. | Irrigation |
| Twisted strands of fence wire with barbs spaced evenly throughout. | Barbed wire |
| Migration that is caused by the feedback of people who have already migrated. | Chain migration |
| A period of low economic activity with rising levels of unemployment. | Depression |
| A house made from grass or sod. | Sod house |
| One who pays rent to use or occupy land, a building, or other property. | Tenant |
| Where did most new settlers to Kansas come from? | Other states (mainly in the East) |
| What were the requirements to claim land through the Homestead Act? | 21 or older, a U.S. citizen or intend to become one, pay a $10 filing fee, live on and farm the land for 5 years. |
| What kinds of transportation were used by settlers coming to Kansas in the 1800's? | Train and stagecoach |
| What European immigrant group came to Kansas in the largest numbers? | Germans |
| What did settlers on the plains use for fuel? | Buffalo or cow chips, hay stalks, corncobs |
| What was the purpose of a windmill on the Great Plains? | It brought underground water to the surface. |
| How did barbed wire impact the settlement of the west? | It allowed farmers to contain their livestock. It was cheap, easy to use, and lasted a long time. |
| Why did African Americans leave the south after the Civil War? | Racism, discrimination, low pay, lack of job opportunities, segregation, unfair laws |
| What push factors motivated many foreign immigrants to leave their homeland? | War, disease, poverty, overcrowding, famine, lack of jobs, religious persecution |
| What pull factors brought many immigrants to Kansas? | Free or cheap land, job opportunities, the railroad, religious freedom, tolerance, equality, freedom |
| How did the Homestead Act encourage settlement in Kansas? | People were motivated to move to Kansas for free or cheap land. |
| What were some of the challenges for new settlers in Kansas? | Extreme weather, drought, lack of access to water, insects, no money or equipment, isolation |
| After the Civil War, many former slaves found work as what? | Tenant farmers |
| What was the largest African American community in northwest Kansas? | Nicodemus |
| Millions of foreign immigrants passed through this immigration station in New York from 1892 - 1954. | Ellis Island |
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