Early Life in Nebraska

Travelers stopped at a _____ to rest, get supplies, and make repairs.

• gas station

• pit stop

• road ranche

• hotel

_____ is goods transported from place to place.

• Freight

• Goods

• Baggage

• Tools

Slaves often traveled on the _____ to get to freedom.

• Pony Express

• Underground Railroad

• Transcontinental Railroad

• Telegraph

Railroad companies often sent a _____ to protect workers from Indian raiders.

• Pony Express rider

• Native American

• worker

• scout

A large farm or estate is a _____.

• plantation

• road ranche

• farm

• homestead

A _____ was a person who claimed and built on land.

• immigrant

• pioneer

• Homesteader

• free slave

An _____ showed bravery when they left their homeland and traveled to settle in a new country.

• scout

• immigrant

• slave

• Civil War soldier

What was the Nebraska Territory during the 1850s?

• free territory

• slave territory

• neither

What was the system of secret routes that slaves used to escape?

• John Brown's Cave

• risky

• Underground Railroad

What was the first capital of Nebraska?

• Lincoln

• Omaha

• Bellevue