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Vehicles

A moving body of water that is

smaller than a river

What is a creek?

A small, rounded hill

What is a knoll?

The top layer of soil that is

attached to grass

What is sod?

A thick patch of trees or bushes

What is a thicket?

An area of land that is owned by the government

What is a territory?

A large pile of hay that is stacked

outside

What is a haystack?

A cotton fabric with a design

What is calico?

A handheld chalkboard

What is a slate?

A person who is the first to settle in a

new land

What is a pioneer?

A tool that looks like a sword on a

stick and is used to mow the prairie

What is a scythe?

A vehicle with four wheels that is

pulled by large animals

What is a wagon?

Material used for the box of a wagon

What is wood?

Used to fix squeaky wheels

What is animal grease?

Material used to cover wagons

What is canvas?

Type of wagon used for the Westward

migration

What is a Conestoga Wagon?

Fruit that has sweet flesh and a smooth pit and

skin

What is a plum?

Red, blue, purple, green, and yellow

What are the colors of plums?

A container used to make butter

What is a churn?

Animal food that is gathered in a large

pile and stacked outside

What is a haystack?

A store that sold food and supplies

to pioneers

What is a mercantile?

A place where a group of people

live near one another

What is a community?

A home that was “dug out” of the

earth

What is a dugout?

The land and buildings a person

owns

What is a homestead?

A small addition to a building

What is a lean-to?

A vehicle’s material that was often used to build

a lean-to

What is lumber from a wagon?

A huge field of grass

What is a prairie?

A small and powerful wind

storm

What is a dust devil?

The name of our children’s book about a pioneer

family

What is On the Banks of Plum

Creek?

The main character of the

real-life story On the Banks of Plum

Creek

Who is Laura Ingalls?

The year Minnesota became a state

What is 1858?

Make your wager

This Act gave pioneers free land

if they lived on and cared for it for at

least 5 years

What is the Homestead Act?