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Study Guide for Kansas History Test over Chapter 6

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show 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?   show
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show 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?   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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How did Abbie Bright travel to her brother's claim in Kansas?   show
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Why did African-Americans leaving the South think Kansas was a good place to settle?   show
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What are three ways that settlers adapted to the lack of trees in Kansas?   show
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show 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?   show
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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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show freed slaves from Kentucky  
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show For fuel since wood was scarce.  
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Skilled silk workers from France settled what Kansas town?   show
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show Mexico  
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show coal mines  
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show Sweden  
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