- Homestead Act
Offering 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household.
An act used to draw in people into purchasing new and unclaimed land Westward. It was the only possible way because 160 acres of free land is a lot land that is being offered free.
- Exodusters
African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas.
Free and unclaimed African Americans who were in search of free land in order to start their new lives.
- Soddy
Like a dugout, a sod home.
Settlers who moved Westward were at a shortage of wood so they had to build houses without it. They instead built houses of sod or piles of prairie turf.
- The Morrill Act
Gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges.
Gave land to the government so that they could build colleges and give education to children on agriculture. In order to survive in the wild, prairie lands, it was vital to know how to farm.
- Bonanza Farms
Enormous single-crop spreads of 15,000-50,000 acres.
Land where crops were grown not to support their own families but to rather sell and gain profit.
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