People and History of the North Central Region
Activity 8




1.    When was Laura Ingalls born?
 
 

2.    Where was she born?
 
 

3.    How did she spend her childhood?
 
 

4.    What book series did she write? Why?
 
 

5.    What are the books about?
 
 

6.    Who did Laura Ingalls marry?
 
 

7.    When did she die?
 
 

8.    What states did Laura Ingalls live in?
 
 

9.    Who were Laura's parents?
 
 

10. What was the Homestead Acto of 1862?
 
 

11.  When did Laura and her family move to Walnut Grove?
 
 

12.  What crop did her father grow in Walnut Grove?
 
 

13.  What happened to this crop?
 
 

14.  How many books did Laura Ingalls Wilder write?