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Oregon Trail
Pioneer Life
Trouble on the Plains
Education
Misc
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1. Towns that the wagon trains would stop to get supplies from and rest.
What is jumping off places?
100
People who came to the Midwest for free land.
1. What is homesteaders?
100
Why were the Plains Indians worried about their people's future?
The settlers cattle were eating up all the grass and many people meant many hunters. Plains Indians thought the resources would not be enough.
100
#8. Places the teachers lived.
What is in the school house, with other students, or where a student's family might pay the teacher to stay?
100
11. Name two of the 3 trails we have studied in class.
What is Oregan, Mormon, and Oregon-California Trail?
200
Picking up sticks for fire wood and getting water when the wagon train stopped.
2. What were the children's chores on the wagon train?
200
Nickname for farmers and homesteaders.
1. What is sodbusters?
200
Built to protect settlers.
6. What is Fort Kearny?
200
The place you went to school.
What is one room school house?
200
12. What is the animal that pioneers used to pull wagons instead of horses? Why?
Oxen/ Cheaper, worked longer, could pull more, could eat if needed.
300
1. Covered wagons
What is prairie schooners?
300
Pioneers use this for fuel to heat their homes.
4. What is cow pies or buffalo chips?
300
a cow
17. What what started the battle where 136 Lakota die in a surprise attack and the rest were captured and set to Fort Laramie?
300
A small chalkboard pioneer students used to write most of their lessons on.
#1. What is a slate?
300
The law that gave people free land.
1. What is The Homestead Act?
400
3. Problems that the wagon train faced on the plains.
What were wagons getting stuck in the mud, too much or too little rain, Crossing rivers, Native American attacks, wild animals, limited food and shelter, etc...
400
Chores women had to do on the prarie.
5. What is make candles, soap, and clothes; took care of the children, did the washing, tended the family garden, ect...?
400
Name four requirements to claim land for the Homestead Act.
16. What is be 21 or head of a family, live on the land for 5 years, build a house and make improvements on the land, and pay about $18 in fees?
400
Name things you would see at a pioneer school house.
9. What is one room, benches for chairs, wooden desk or long table, few if any windows, no playground, ect...?
400
13. John C Fremont did this.
What is create a map and write about all the great things in NE?
500
Instead of going to Oregon some on the wagon train went to Califorina insearch of this.
What is the gold or gold rush?
500
15. What is Nebraska's marble and what it used for?
It was sod and it was used for making homes and buildings.
500
7. Name reasons why people gave up life as a homesteader.
What is hard to farm, hard to keep warm, could not keep a sod house very clean, doctors were too far away to see, town far away, had to make everything yourself, may not get to go to school, ect...?
500
10.Who went to school?
Children who paid for it.
500
14. Winter lodge for the Mormon Trail.
Where is Omaha?