Ch 5 Review

Cultivating farmland owned by someone else

A method that allowed a squatter to purchase public land he had lived on after 14 months

_____ 3. A method to obtain land without having to purchase it by living on it and making improvements over a 5 year period

_____ 4. A method to obtain land by planting a large number of trees and then purchasing that land at $1.25 an acre

5. Americans who lived on Indian lands were called ___________________________.

More than 5,000 Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche met with representatives of the U.S. government to make peace at ___________________________.

The massacre of Plains Indians by the Colorado Volunteer Regiments occurred at ________________________________ and added to the American Indians distrust of the United States.

The 9th and 10th Cavalries were made up of African American soldiers who became known as __________________________________.

The coming of the ______________________ helped to end the frontier in Kansas

_____ 10. It was important to survey public lands in Kansas so that: