The Nebraska Adventure Chapter 8

What do you call a person who leaves one country to settle in another country?

• sodbuster
• immigrant
• homesteader
• anniversary

What is another name for a farmer; one who dug up sod or prairie grasses?

• sodbuster
• homesteader
• immigrant
• Solomon Butcher

What did the pioneer children use to write down their lessons?

• pamphlet
• sod
• slate
• Nebraska marble

What do we call a day that marks a special event from a previous year?

• pamphlet
• anniversary
• slate
• immigrant

What do we call a person who came to claim and build on free land?

• Homesteader
• European
• Immigrant
• Soldier

Why did people want to come to Nebraska?

• so they could have a voice in the government
• so they could work in factories 
• to get free land given away by the Homestead Act
• to get away from the Civil War

What would be a category heading for the following words:
Nebraska marble
muddy floors
leaky roofs

• Sod houses
• Schools
• Statehood
• Solomon Butcher

What would be the category heading for the following words:
free land
proving up
going busted

• School
• Civil War
• Homesteading
• Photographer

What would be the category heading for the following words?
photographs
primary sources
cameras

• Nebraska Marble
• Solomon Butcher
• Sod houses
• School

What do you call a printed page used to promote something?

• sodbuster
• anniversary
• pamphlet
• parfleche