When people decided to LIVE on the prairies or out west in Oregon and

California, they were called _______________.

Wagons were usually pulled by _________ or mules. They would travel about ___________ miles a day.

The miners of 1849, headed west to look for ______________.

Pioneers wanted to cross the _______________ before the first heavy snow fell.

At night, the wagons would form a _________ for safety.

When buffalo became frightened out on the prairie, they might form a ______________.

_______________ was burned by many pioneers on the prairie because wood was hard to find.

Pioneers might start their long journey west at ______________, Missouri if they were starting out on the Oregon Trail.

Pioneers would leave in the ______________ to make sure they made it to their destination before the snow fell.

On the trail, _________ would get into everything the pioneers owned and ate.

Because there was very little wood found on the prairie, many early pioneers made __________ to live in.

Pioneer women would plant a __________ near the house, in order to harvest vegetables for the family to eat in the winter.

The women and children would preserve the milk by ________ it into butter or by making cheese.

Choose ALL of the chores pioneer children would have to do.

The most important chore pioneer families would have to do in the fall was ____________.

The pioneer families would store their garden vegetables in the _______________.

Choose ALL the reasons pioneers decided to move out west.

How were pioneer schools different than schools today?

Pioneers watched for _____________ to help them travel in the right direction.