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Cheap Land
Farming
Grab Bag
Lumber
Lumberjacks
100
What brought people to Michigan like a magnet?
cheap land
100
Name three animals raised on pioneer farms.
Examples: cows, chickens, pigs, sheep
100
Give one reason why rivers were important during pioneer days.
Water source for pioneers Lumberjacks used them to move the logs.
100
Michigan had plenty of trees. What was one way that trees were used in the 1800s?
Building: houses fences businesses railroads
100
Give one name for a person who cuts down trees (other than lumberjack).
Shanty Boy Logger
200
How much did land cost in the 1830's?
Land cost about $1.25 per acre.
200
Why did farmers move to Michigan?
Cheap land good soil (dirt)
200
During which season did loggers cut down the white pines? Why?
Winter- so they could move the logs towards the river by sliding them over ice.
200
This is the best tree for lumber. Michigan had plenty of this type of tree.
White pine
200
People moved from other countries to come to Michigan and work as a Shanty Boy. Name one country mentioned in the book.
Finland Sweden Canada
300
Where did Michigan's new settlers come from?
States in the east, like New York.
300
Name two crops that Michigan farmers grew.
Apples, oats, corn, berries, wheat
300
What does scarcity mean?
There is not enough of one resource.
300
At first, what was done with all of the trees in Michigan (once they were cut)?
They were wasted, they were burned.
300
Explain or describe one technology that loggers used that helped make their job easier.
Equipment to move the logs. big wheels small trains saws
400
What natural resource helped Michigan grow?
Good dirt
400
This became a big business in Michigan (after fur trading).
Farming
400
Name one thing that is part of Michigan's economy.
business farming stores
400
There were negative consequences of too many trees being cut down. Name one negative consequence.
There were very few trees left to cut down.
400
Name an acitivty that the shanty boys did when they were not working.
Telling tall tales such as Paul Bunyan.
500
What canal brought the New York settlers to Michigan?
Erie Canal
500
Farming changed the environment by....
cutting down trees that were in Michigan building houses and fences
500
What is a barn raising?
When neighbors came together to help build a barn.
500
What is the word that means the lumberjacks did not think about trees for the future (they didn't plant more when they were cutting them down).
Conservation
500
Where can people today go to see large white pines like the ones that the loggers cut down in the 1800s?
Hartwick Pines