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Pioneers -- Westward Expansion.
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A broad-wheeled wagon usually drawn by horses and used especially for moving freight across prairies.
a) conestoga
b) dugout
c) exoduster
d) log cabin
A shelter dug into a hillside and roofed with sod.
a) conestoga
b) dugout
c) exoduster
d) flatboat
An African American person who was part of the migration from the South to Kansas.
a) flatboat
b) locust
c) exoduster
d) Homestead Act
A boat with a flat bottom and square ends used for moving freight in shallow water.
a) dugout
b) locust
c) pioneer
d) flatboat
A law that gave land free of charge in exchange for building and living on the land for five years.
a) Homestead Act
b) pioneer
c) conestoga
d) exoduster
A type of grasshopper that travels in swarms and destroys crops.
a) pioneer
b) locust
c) dugout
d) log cabin
A small one-story house made of logs.
a) Homestead Act
b) dugout
c) log cabin
d) soddy
One of the first people to settle in a region.
a) conestoga
b) exoduster
c) soddy
d) pioneer
A long covered wagon used by pioneers to cross the prairies.
a) prairie schooner
b) conestoga
c) sod
d) dugout
A gathering of women to make blankets of stitched cloth patterns.
a) soddy
b) quilting bee
c) wilderness trail
d) prairie schooner
Grass, roots, and dirt on the surface of the ground.
a) soddy
b) log cabin
c) wagon train
d) sod
A small house built with cut blocks of sod.
a) log cabin
b) prairie schooner
c) soddy
d) wilderness trail
A person in charge of one or more wagons.
a) wagon master
b) wagon train
c) sod
d) prairie schooner
A line of wagons traveling long distances.
a) dugout
b) prairie schooner
c) wilderness trail
d) wagon train
The path through the Cumberland Gap in the Appalachian Mountains used by settlers moving west.
a) Wilderness trail
b) wagon train
c) quilting bee
d) prairie schooner
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