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? |