Study Guide for Kansas History Test over Chapter 6
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| What was the Homestead Act? | show 🗑
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| show | They cultivated, or worked, someone else's land as a renter.
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| What did the Preemption Act allow settlers to do? | show 🗑
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| show | 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? | show 🗑
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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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| 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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| Many immigrants from the British Isles left their homeland to... | show 🗑
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| show | 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? | show 🗑
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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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| Why did settlers gather buffalo chips? | show 🗑
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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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