Chapter 8 Part 2 Review
Why was it so important for common people from Europe to own land?
They were not allowed to own land in Europe
area just beyond the settled land
frontier
What was success based on?
ability
government by the people democra cy
What kind of lifestyle did the settlers adopt?
Indian
The Indians called corn maize
examples of Indian influence
Indian Influence Maize Moccasins Canoes Pumpkins
Indian Influence Tobacco Wild Turkey Black Walnuts Popcorn
One who buys something, such as land, hoping that it will increase in value and provide a profit when sold is known as a speculator
native of Switzerland who visited and drew sketches hoping to attract settlers to the area
Louis Michel
Swiss baron, planed to send 400 Swiss to settle the area
Baron Christoph von Graffenried
four factors contributed to a surge of settlement after 1730
Factors to settlement 1.Reports of early explorers 2.afraid the French would gain control
Factors to settlement 3.Land became scarce in the middle colonies 4.Land policies of the Virginia government
Name the Middle Colonies
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, Delaware
Another name for ministers or priests is clergy
preachers established regular routes to visit isolated areas on the frontier.
Circuit riding preacher
Francis Asbury Circuit – Riding Preacher
To get away from the this, many settlers, including the Germans and Scots-Irish, came to America. Religious persecution
a particular religious group, such as Methodist, Baptist, or Presbyterian denominatio n
first permanent European settler in West Virginia
Morgan
first church west of the Alleghenies
Christ Episcopal, Bunker Hill
Where did Zackquill Morgan establish a settlement?
Morgan's Fort, Morgantown
Where did Levi, Mod, and James Morgan settle?
New Martinsville
Wetzel County Court House
departure exodus
the Rine River Valley of Germany
Palatinate
Where did the Pennsylvania Dutch come from?
Germany, Deutsch
resident of New Jersey, granted 10,000 acres in the Shenandoah Valley
Isaac Van Meter
Scots who had been settled in Ireland by King James I
Scots-Irish
founded Draper’s Meadow, the first settlement west of the Allegheny Divide. Scots- Irish
denies people their rights because of prejudice
discrimination
the first settlement west of the Allegheny Divide
Draper's Meadow
This surveyor's family owned part of the Greenbrier Valley.
Andrew Lewis
What two friends broke up over religious differences ?
Jacob Marlin - Stephen Sewell
Agreed to work for a period of 7 years for passage to the New World
indentured servant
to implant an idea or attitude into a person’s mind gradually instill
the practice of owning people as property and forcing those people to work for the slaveholder slaver y
three ways could a settler claim land
Tomahawk Rights Corn Rights Settlement Rights
to mark trees to indicate the boundaries of a piece of land, to indicate a path, or to show the way to follow blaze
how the forest was cleared
set on fire, girdling
the practice of removing a band of bark all the way around a tree to kill the tree and make it easier to remove from the ground girdlin g
kinds of shelters
lean to, cabin
The chimney of a pioneer cabin that was made of a mixture of mud and twigs was known as a cat and clay chimney
Why was the fireplace so important?
heat, cooking, light
split logs, often set flat side up, to form the floor of a cabin puncheons
wooden plates and cups
trenchers, noggins
kinds of meat
deer, elk, bear, squirrel, rabbit, turkey, hogs
kinds of crops
corn, pumpkin, squash, beans, potatoes
staple foods
corn bread, hominy, pork
Pioneer sugar
maple syrup, honey
Pioneer clothing was most often practical
pioneer clothing
loose hunting shirts, deerskin, breeches, leggings, on their belt - powder horn, bullet bag, tomahawk, knife mittens in the winter, moccasins, coonskin hat
most common colors for dyes
blue - indigo, red - madder
Pioneer fabric
linsey - woolsey
Common gatherings centered around what activities
Frontier activities House raising Log rolling
Frontier activities Corn husking Hog killing
Survival Skills
Bow and arrow Bird calling Hunting and Fishing
Work prepared girls for:
Home making
Major event on the frontier
Wedding
Most popular activity at the wedding
Dancing
Ebenezer Zane settlement
Wheeling
Lewis Tacket settlement
St. Albans
Olde Main Plaza – St. Albans
Daniel Boone settlement
Pt. Pleasant Daniel Boone
George Clendenin settlement
Charleston
Morgan Morgan settlement
Bunker Hill
John Simpson settlement
Clarksburg
Zackquill Morgan settlement
Morgantown
Steven Sewell Jacob Marlin settlement
Marlinton
Shepards Family settlement
Shepardstown
Pringle brothers settlement
Buckhannon
Robert Files David Tygart settlement
Beverly
Thomas Ingles settlement
Bluefield
Joist Hite settlement
Winchester
Walter Kelly settlement
Kelly’s Creek
Why language changed little
isolation
Language spoken in the mountains
Southern Mountain Dialect
Outsiders
Foreigners or Outlanders
Backset
relapse
Neigh wearied
Very worried
Reckon so
I suppose
wasper
wasp
press
Closet
Redd up
clean
smooch
kiss
Let on
pretend
fetch
Go get
poke
bag