Ch 17 Vocabulary Quiz: Farming

name given to Great Plains farmers because they had to break through so much thick soil, called sod, in order to farm

• Exoduster

• Sodbuster

• Homesteader

• Populist

1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and farm it for five years

• Homestead Act

• Sodbuster Act

• Populist Act

• Dawes Act

African Americans who left the South to the West after the Civil War to become successful farmers.

• Sodbuster

• Homesteader

• Exoduster

• Vaquero

Political party to support farmers who were looking for lower railroad prices & 8 hour work days.

• Sodbuster Party

• Populist Party

• Democratic Party

• Republican Partu

Person elected to represent both the Populist party & the farmers to fight for their rights.

• Buffalo Bill

• Sitting Bull

• Crazy Horse

• William Jennings Bryan