A | B |
Women's task | launder and clean house |
Homestead Act or be a soldier | How settlers acquired land? |
Changes made by railroad | connect MN and growing farms with bigger market |
Wheat | easy MN crop |
hard sod | protected soil |
change in farming | began growing extra to sell at market |
Type of houses lived in my settlers | Sod houses |
Louis Fertile | made a profit from buying and selling land |
Oliver H. Kelley | Founded the Grange |
Sarah Tainter | helped set up the farm by managing the household |
James J. Hill | known as the "empire builder" |
John Tainter | helped set up the farm by breaking sod |
cheap land | way the government encouraged people to settle in farming areas |
first year crops | potatoes, turnips, and corn |
reason grasshoppers came to MN | had crops to eat |
Railroad inspectors sometimes cheated farmers | True |
Child's task | repair buildings |
Not a man's task | preserve food |
Why Grange important? | educate, organize, and socialize |
Cooperatives | groups of farmers working together |