The Ships of the Plains pp 6-7
This was the name given to the piece that connects the animal's harnesses to the wagon.
What is the Tongue?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This weather condition killed the promising corn crops in the plains.
What is high heat or summer draughts?
This is the time the day began for the pioneers
When is 4 am?
This crop was easy for early pioneers to grow and store
What is corn?
This was the first house many pioneers in the plains first had.
What is a dugout?
DAILY DOUBLE!
These were made to be light and strong, the complete opposite of Conestoga Wagons.
What is the Prairie Schooner?
This crop, that was popular for making bread, fared best in the prairie.
What was wheat?
This is the shape the wagons made to pen in the oxen at night.
What is a circle?
Early Pioneers depended on these two things.
What are rifles and axes?
A law said that you had to build a house by these dimensions on newly claimed land in the Great Plains.
What is 12 by 12?
These items were the first to go if the wagon got too heavy.
What are family treasures?
Their job was to look after the children.
Who were the women?
This animal was used by the native Americans but was practically destroyed by the pioneers.
What is a buffalo?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This happened in the 1840s and 1860s.
What was the second wave of westward movement?
(second movement)
These are the dried droppings of cattle used to make fires.
What are cow chips?
This part of the wagon was made out of Hickory Wood and supported the canvas.
What were the Bows?
This swarm of bugs chewed through fields of grain, leather boots, and harness straps.
What were the short-horned grasshoppers?
DAILY DOUBLE!
This is the name given to the midday break that the travelers took.
What is nooning?
Pioneers could take the wheels off this and float the wagons across rivers.
What are Conestogas?
It is the name given to the sod cut into blocks.
What is Nebraska Marble?
People heading west hoping to get rich were said to have this condition.
What was "Gold Fever"?
These created dust storms that turned the skies to black during the hot, dry summer months.
What were high winds?
This is the percentage of pioneers that died due to the native Americans
What is 4 percent?
This person and his woodsmen created the first only usable route through the Appalachian Mountains to Kentucky.
Who was Daniel Boone?
DAILY DOUBLE!
These are the two trees that are used to make roof poles.
What are cottonwood and willow trees?