Pioneers
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Final Jeopardy
100
Someone who is among the first group of people to settle in a place.
Who is a pioneer?
100
One of a group of African Americans who left the South in the 1870’s to settle in Kansas.
Who is an Exoduster?
100
A road that Daniel Boone and 30 woodsmen built through the Appalachian Mountains into Kentucky.
What is the Wilderness Road
100
A heavy covered wagon with large wheels, named for the valley in Pennsylvania.
What is a Conestoga?
200
A rectangular wooden boat with a flat bottom.
What is a flatboat?
200
A small house made out of logs or tree trunks
What is a log cabin?
200
A line or group of wagons that travel across the country together
What is a wagon train?
200
A lightweight covered wagon pulled by horses or oxen
What is a prairie schooner?
300
A person hired or elected to lead a wagon train
Who is a wagon master?
300
Grass covered soil that is held together by tangles or matted roots
What is sod?
300
A house built using blocks of sod cut from the ground
What is a soddy or sod house?
300
A law passed in 1862 granting 160 acres of land to any adult who built a house on that land and lived there for at least 5 years
What is the Homestead Act?
400
A shelter or home dug out of the ground, often in the side of a hill
What is a dugout?
400
A type of grasshopper that sometimes travels in large swarms, eating up crops and other plants
What is a locust?
400
A gathering at which people work together to sew a quilt, a blanket made from small pieces of cloth
What is a quilting bee?
400
Snowstorms, Prairie fires, dust storms, tornadoes
What are the "Perils of the Plains"?
500
Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?