In the 1800s European Americans settlers began moving across the Appalachian Mountains into what they called the pioneersflatboatsfrontierConestoga wagonsWilderness RoadSelect your answer. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable was a trader from Haiti, a French colony in the log cabinsWilderness RoadConestoga wagonsJohn DeereCaribbeanSelect your answer. His trading post would become the city of Chicago. Thousands of log cabinsWilderness RoadCaribbeanfrontierpioneersSelect your answer followed him and other traders. Pioneers are people who settle on land that is new to them. By 1840, more than 4 million settlers had moved west of the Appalachian Mountains.

Reaching the Middle West region was not easy. One trail used by many settlers was the CaribbeanConestoga wagonsWilderness Roadlog cabinsflatboatsSelect your answer. It ran from the Appalachian Mountains to the Ohio River. Some families traveled on foot or with horses carrying their belongings. Other settlers reached the west by water. Flat-bottomed wood boats, called log cabinssodConestoga wagonsbeansflatboatsSelect your answer, were used to travel downriver. As trails widened and roads were built, settlers began to use beansConestoga wagonsflatboatsWilderness RoadsodSelect your answer pulled by horses, mules, or oxen. These sturdy wagons had a rounded frame on top that was covered in layers of heavy cloth.

Pioneers made houses of Caribbeanlog cabinspioneerssodConestoga wagonsSelect your answer, or soil and grass, in the sides of hills. They lived there while they built more permanent homes. They cut down trees to build simple Conestoga wagonsfrontierlog cabinsCaribbeanbeansSelect your answer. They cleared underbrush and plowed so crops could be planted. Corn, flatboatspioneerslog cabinsfrontierbeansSelect your answer, and potatoes would provide most of their food. In some areas, prairie grasses made plowing very difficult. CaribbeanConestoga wagonsWilderness RoadpioneersJohn DeereSelect your answer invented a plow from the blade of a saw. His invention was so successful, others wanted plows like his. Deere quickly had a growing business making farming tools.