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Study Guide for Kansas History Test over Chapter 6

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What was the Homestead Act?   show
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What did a tenant farmer do?   show
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What did the Preemption Act allow settlers to do?   show
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What did the Timber Culture Act do?   show
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show So that legal boundaries could be established  
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Most of the people who moved to Kansas after the Civil War were...   show
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show By train and stagecoach  
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show 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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show 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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show escape a strong class system with no opportunities for advancement  
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show because they had pacifist beliefs and did not want to serve in the military  
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show Germans  
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show Exodusters  
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Who was the African-American land speculator and promoter who encouraged African Americans to come to Kansas?   show
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Most of the people who settled in Nicodemus, Kansas were...   show
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Why did settlers gather buffalo chips?   show
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show Silkville  
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The railroads recruited immigrants from what country to maintain the railroad lines?   show
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The area in southeastern Kansas known as the "Little Balkans" attracted immigrants from southeastern Europe to work in the...   show
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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?   show
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