Ranchers and Farmers

4. Work on the farm kept children from going here.
6. _____ land and falling prices led to a collapse of the "Cattle Kingdom".
9. New laws offered _____ land.
10. Dry, treeless area used for farming in the late 1860s.
12. Many African Americans took advantage of the Homestead act to escape _____ and violence.
13. A challenge of the Great Plains was _____ a house.
15. Drought and this caused presented settlers with their greatest challenges.

1. Name given to early Great Plains farmers
2. Settlers built these because there were no trees for lumber.
3. These settlers arrived early to claim land during the Oklahoma Land Rush.
5. This act was passed to encourage settlement in the Great Plains.
7. a farming method that depends on plowing after every rain and trapping moisture in the soil in dry, non-irrigated land.
8. _____ women could not obtain land in the Homestead Act.
11. By 1881, more than _____ thousand African Americans had migrated to Kansas.
14. Cattle that escaped and survived in the wild.