| A | B |
|---|
| Homestead Act | a method to obtain land without having to purchase it by living on it and making improvements over a five year period |
| Preemption Act | a method that allowed a squatter to purchase public land he had lived on after 14 months |
| Timber Culture Act | a method to obtain land by planting a large number of trees and then purchasing that land at $1.25 an acre |
| tenant farming | cultivating farmland owned by someone else |
| Emancipation | the act of being made free |
| Immigrate | to move to a different country |
| migrate | to move from one place to another |
| Land Speculator | someone who invests in something with the possibility of great gains or losses |
| famine | a drastic wide-reaching food shortage |
| Barbed wire | twisted strands of fence wire with barbs at regular intervals |
| pacifist | Opposition to war or violence as a means of resolving disputes |
