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Claiming and Clearing the Land
Building Homes Food and Clothing
More food and Clothing
Recreation
Language/Misc.
100
knife to mark trees
What is blaze
100
how were fires lit during this time period
what is flint
100
Pioneers clothing was
What is practical
100
Early Settlers in West Virginia were concerened mainly with what
What is Survival
100
regional form of language
What is dialect
200
using a knife to blaze (mark) trees was known as what kind of rights?
What is Tomahawk rights
200
Give two things wood was used for
What is building their cabins and heating there homes, making dishes, dyes, medicine, and soap
200
what were the two most common colors used to dye clothes
What is red and blue
200
Give two common gatherings for early settlers
What is weddings, log rollings, corn husking, and hog killings
200
The dialect of the mountains of western Virginia is known as
What is Southern Mountain Dialect
300
Settlers could gain land also by planting crops this was called
What is Corn rights
300
How was food attained by early settlers? What did the men do for food?
What is hunted, fished, planted crops
300
Daily Double!!!!!!!!What was the two substitutes settlers used instead of sugar?
What is Honey and syrup
300
What were two things that boys were taught to do being brough up in western Virginia?
What is use bow and arrow, make animal calls
300
List the two peoples that our dialect and language came from
What is German and Scots-Irish
400
When a band of bark is moved all the way around the tree to make it easier to cut down its known as what
What is girdling
400
hulled and dried kernals of corn that have been boiled
What is hominy
400
List 2 things male pioneers made
What is horse shoes, farm tools, sleds, weaving looms, and spinning wheels
400
What was the most popular social activity?
What is dancing
400
Give 3 reasons for the surge in settlement of 1730?
Unspoiled beauty and untold adventure stop french expansion east of ohio river Breathing room Virginia's land policy
500
Split logs (often used as floors in early cabins) were known as what
What is puncheons
500
what was one commodity that was in short supply in western Virginia
What is Sugar
500
a mixture of flax and wool or cotton and wool
What is linsey-woolsey
500
List 2 things that pioneer girls did for recreation
What is played with homeade dolls, storytelling, dancing, worked beside her mother so she would be prepared to make her own home one day.
500
The name of Morgan Morgans church was
What is Christ Episcopal Church