Answer:

settlers

Answer	Crossword Clue
SETTLERS	Frontiersmen
SETTLERS	Homesteaders
SETTLERS	Oregon Trail folk

SETTLERS	Early colonists
SETTLERS	Early residents
SETTLERS	Conestoga riders
SETTLERS	Pioneers
SETTLERS	Pilgrims
SETTLERS	Pioneers, often
SETTLERS	Homestead Act beneficiaries
SETTLERS	Pioneers.

SETTLERS	Colonists.
SETTLERS	Homesteaders.
SETTLERS	Early Americans.
SETTLERS	Colonizers.
SETTLERS	Covered wagon people.
SETTLERS	Early Westerners.
SETTLERS	Pilgrim Fathers, for example.
SETTLERS	Pilgrims, for instance.

SETTLERS	Pilgrims.
SETTLERS	Pilgrims and others.
SETTLERS	Sooners and others
SETTLERS	Colonists
SETTLERS	Pilgrim Fathers, e.g.
SETTLERS	Pilgrims, e.g.
SETTLERS	Roanoke Island group
SETTLERS	Alden, John Smith et al.

SETTLERS	Virginia Dare's people
SETTLERS	Roanoke group
SETTLERS	Ones manifesting Manifest Destiny
SETTLERS	American folk song "Old ... Song"
SETTLERS	Pioneer group
SETTLERS	West Bank Israelis