Worksheet # 79

prairie      soddies     buffalo chips     typhoid     cyclone   
John Deere    Frederick Turner    Mark Twain    Nebraska Marble    windmills  

1) Person who invented the steel plow that helped "sodbusters"
        enormously: __________.
2) The type of fuel used by people on the treeless plains:________.
3) An grassy, dry and mostly flat area of land: _________.
4) Person who noticed that homesteaders kept "their front yard on
         the roof of their house":___________.
5) Disease that spread on the Plains largely because water was scarce
        and people and animals drank from the same saved amount: ______.
6) Person who wrote about how America's character was shaped
        by having a large open frontier: _________.
7) Nickname for the material used to make homes on the Plains: ______.
8) The name of those homes: ________.
9) A swirl of wind or tornado, it is one of the many hazards of life
        out in the western states: _________.
10) Devices used to power pumps in order to get water from wells: _____.

Thought Question:  How did the Homestead Act begin the decline of
       the Wild West?













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