Farming Communities

1. Many families suffered from this because they did not have the money to keep up their farm
3. New technology led to the favoring of larger farms over
4. John Deere created this which helped speed up production
6. Gave homesteaders 160 more acres in return for them planting 40 acres of trees
10. Added 1 million acres of irrigated land to the U.S.
11. Work on the farm usually had to be done from dawn to
13. On the plains women primarily worked in the
14. Gave 160 acres of land to farmers who would live on it and improve it for five years

1. Set the federal government on the path toward large scale regulatory activities
2. "Land grant" colleges were given land for campus' in return for promising to institute agricultural programs
5. During the late nineteenth century farmers who produced this particularly prospered
6. Promoted settlement, brought people to their homes, transported crops
7. Large farms performing large-scale operations
8. Gave the president power to establish forest reserves to protect whater sheds from threats like overgrazing and fires
9. On the plains men primarily worked on the
12. Helped farmers do their work faster
15. Homes created by stacked layers of turf