Chapter 13: Homesteading This Dry Land Review

What Act supported Jefferson's vision of a nation of small farmers?

T/F: Dryland farming requires water systems

T/F: Homesteaders believed local governments should be further away from the people

What did banks do to farms that couldn't pay back their debts?

What is the requirement called when you must build a home and live on the land?

Which of the following led to the end of homesteading?

When people realize that dryfarming was a technique that did not work?

True/False: People began to move to Montana because of a wet and rainy season

What industries promoted Montana as fertile farm land?

What is a title?

T/F: Irrigation is where humans divert water to a place that is lacking a water source

T/F: Homesteading did not change the landscape of Motana

What type of businesses helped homesteaders get fire departments and telephones?

What are land features, such as hill and slopes?

What major event led to an increase in immigrant farmers, mining and agricultural products?

What is a tenet farmer?

True/False: Moisture is cause by snow and rain

Which Act opened up reservation land for homesteading?

T/F: The people who stayed in MT after the period of homesteading, learned to adapt to the land

T/F: Homesteading preserved much of the native grasslands and wildlife

What are some descriptions of early homestead life?

True/False: People did not want to originally settle in Montana because it was too far

What part of Montana divides the region between arid and moist?

What is NOT TRUE about the Forest Homestead Act?

What is fallowing?