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Homes
Food
Clothing
Health
Crops/Livestock
100
What are the two typs of houses the pioneers lived in?
log cabins and sod houses
100
What did most families complain about there diet?
It was always the same
100
The first step to sewing?
shear a sheep.
100
Woman learned how to care for the sick by whom?
There mothers
100
The usually had a small field of what?
potatoes so they can feed there family
200
What was the most important part of the house?
fireplace
200
How was most of the food store?
dried
200
Besides sewing and weaving the cloths what else did the woman do?
mend cloths
200
If a woman's husband died then what did she have to do.
Take over the farm as well as his work indoors.
200
What temperature did it have to be when the bunched meat?
Cold so the meat won't spoil.
300
What did woman stand on in the house when is was cold outside to do there work.
wooden blocks
300
What did the woman spend the most time doing?
growing, preserving, and preparing food.
300
What did the mothers most dread doing?
wash cloths day
300
What was the a treatment that the book talks about?
Poultice
300
Besides the main crop as corn what else did the plant?
barley and oats
400
Where do the children slept during the warm seasons?
the overhead loft
400
What do many mothers believe during the winter time.
That there kids blood should be thickened
400
How long did wash day take?
two days
400
What were two ways that woman helped outside of the house.
You could have rised chickens, gathered eggs, and helped milk the cows.
400
Farmers feed what to the pigs?
grain
500
What furniture did the house have. Name two items.
You could have said one bed, a small cupboard, a table, and a few chairs or stools.
500
What were the pioneers most eager to see?
the green come out of the earth
500
What did they have to do on wash day.
Carry buckets of water from a near by steam to there house.
500
What is poultice?
It's a soft material, such as bread, that is heated and placed in a wound.
500
What happened if an early snow made it impossible to finish harvesting?
They left the corn stalks standing, to be picked in the spring.