Pioneer Life
A home made of grass and built into the side of a hill.
What is a sod house?
Offered new settlers rich land and huge forests
What was Oregon?
North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma/Texas
What are the Great Plains?
People who left everything behind to find gold.
What is a prospector?
Guiding oxen through a swift current.
What is a river crossing?
A covered wagon used for travel westward
What is a prairie schooner?
The desire to own land in Oregon County.
What is Oregon Fever?
What are some parts of a train?
Discovered gold at Sutter Creek in California.
Who was James W. Marshall?
Spooked livestock, caught clothing, 1300 pounds...
What is being run over by a wagon?
A staple food that could be easily preserved.
What is Corn?
Needed for building houses and towns
What is lumber?
The belief that farming land would improve the climate.
What was "rain follows plow"?
By panning or using a sluice.
How do you find gold?
Contracted through infected food and drink, causing those infected to shed bacteria in stool and urine
What is Typhoid fever?
What is Pioneer Life?
Pioneers swapped things amongthemselves and Native Americans
What is bartering?
Gave homesteaders the option to purchase land for a low price after living on it for 6 months, or the land became theirs if they worked on it for five years.
What was the Homestead Act of 1862?
The center for banking and manufacturing.
What was Sanfrancisco?
A diarrheal illness caused by a toxi bacteria, usually transmitted in food or water contaminated ith infected feces.
What is Cholera?
The belief that the US was destined, by God, to expand across the entire North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
Places set aside for Native Americans by the United States government.
What is a reservation?
A deep furrowing method of farming that produced huge amounts of wheat across the great plains.
What is known as "dry farming"?
Rivers filled with mud, silt and poisons.
What was a result of mining?
Sharing tents, campfires and supplies, this disease was easily spread.
What is measles?