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A person in charge of one or more wagons.
a) wagon master
b) wagon train
c) sod
d) prairie schooner

A small house built with cut blocks of sod.
a) log cabin
b) prairie schooner
c) soddy
d) wilderness trail

Grass, roots, and dirt on the surface of the ground.
a) soddy
b) log cabin
c) wagon train
d) sod

A gathering of women to make blankets of stitched cloth patterns.
a) soddy
b) quilting bee
c) wilderness trail
d) prairie schooner

A long covered wagon used by pioneers to cross the prairies.
a) prairie schooner
b) conestoga
c) sod
d) dugout

One of the first people to settle in a region.
a) conestoga
b) exoduster
c) soddy
d) pioneer

A small one-story house made of logs.
a) Homestead Act
b) dugout
c) log cabin
d) soddy

A type of grasshopper that travels in swarms and destroys crops.
a) pioneer
b) locust
c) dugout
d) log cabin

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 boat with a flat bottom and square ends used for moving freight in shallow water.
a) dugout
b) locust
c) pioneer
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 shelter dug into a hillside and roofed with sod.
a) conestoga
b) dugout
c) exoduster
d) flatboat

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 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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