1.3 Western Migration: Problems and Solutions

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not true?

• Barbed wire was used by settlers to mark boundaries and protect their crops from wandering livestock.

• Pioneers had to rely on maps, guidebooks, and sometimes Native American to guide them on their westward journey.

• Prairie fires were often started by pioneers to clear land.

• Windmills harnessed the wind's power to pump water from underground wells for various purposes.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not true?

• Bugs and critters could find their way into sod houses through small cracks or openings.

• Pioneers used trained badgers and prairie dogs to warn them of approaching danger.

• Pioneers often used dried animal dung, known as cow chips, for fuel due to there being so little wood.

• Women and children often felt lonely because they lived so far from their neighbors.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is true?

• To combat loneliness, settlers on the prairie established the "Prairie Postal Service," a network of trained messenger birds to carry letters between communities.

• Pioneers made carriages with large sails that allowed them to move across the prairie at very high speeds.

• Some pioneers created "sod art" by shaping and sculpting the earth walls of their homes into complicated designs and patterns.

• Charlie Parkhurst, a very good stagecoach driver, was actually a woman who pretended to be a man for more than 30 years to work in a job mostly done by men.

Reorder

Reorder the following things pioneers who traveled to the West had to do.

• Planned their trip and saved their money.

• Purchased food, tools, and clothes they would need for their trip.

• Packed their wagon.

• Followed maps, guides, and sometimes Native Americans to find their way.

• Built homes out of sod or wood.

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