Settling the Great Plains

A person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country

• cavalry

• settler

• immigrant

• cultivate

Able to live through difficult conditions

• hardy

• homestead

• immigrant

• sod

A person who lives in a new country or area

• immigrant

• Great Plains

• homestead

• settler

The upper layer of soil that has grass growing on it

• Great Plains

• homestead

• hardy

• sod

A strong type of wire that has sharp points on it; used to separate plots of land

• barbed wire

• Great Plains

• cultivate

• sod

To prepare land and grow crops on it

• sod

• cultivate

• homestead

• hardy

A house and the surrounding land owned by a family

• homestead

• sod

• settler

• cavalry

A dry region east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada

• homestead

• immigrant

• cultivate

• Great Plains

Soldiers who fought on horseback

• hardy

• cavalry

• immigrant

• settler

African American cavalry soldiers who fought in the Great Plains against the Native Americans protecting settlers

• immigrant

• settler

• barbed wire

• Buffalo soldiers