President Lincoln passed the _____________________ to encourage people to

move out west by giving land.

The Homestead Act:
1.
2.
3.

Gave the head of household, age _______ years old and over, ______ acres
of uncultivated land.
Required the land to be lived on for ______ years and _______________
had to be made to the land.
Then, the land was titled or was given to the homesteader.

The Great Pains was a _______________.

Farmers of the Great Plains were called _____________ because they had to
break through the sod before planting crops.
To prepare the Great Pains for planting, _________ had to be removed from the
land. The land had to be __________ and irrigation systems had to be built to
bring ___________ to the area.
The land of the Great Plains was very fertile or ______________________. This
is why the Great Plains was also called ____________________________.
Impact on Animals:
1. _______________________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________________
Impact on Native Americans:
1. _______________________________________________________
2. _______________________________________________________
3. _______________________________________________________