2.  Goal: Encourage settlement of the West  Offer 160 acres of land per family  Requirements Within five years must have  House and farm  If successful, land was theirs

3.  Intended for poor families Cost of outfitting the move to expensive  Law was ambiguous Fraud and abuse prevalent Became land grab for  Land speculators  Cattlemen  Miners  Railroads

4.  African Americans who moved from the post-Reconstruction South to Kansas  25,000 Africans Americans migrated West

5.  Houses No lumber, used available resources Dugouts-homes built into the side of hills Soddy- freestanding homes made of blocks of prairie turf

6.  1837 – steel plow, John Deere  1847- Reaping machines, Cyrus McCormick  1869- Spring tooth harrow  1841- Grain Drill  1874- Barbed Wire  1878- Corn binder