Chapter 8 Part 2 Review Why was it so important for common people from Europe to own land?

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

democracy

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 ofSwitzerland 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 settlement1.Reports of early explorers

2.afraid the French would gain control

Factors to settlement3.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

FrancisAsbury

Circuit – RidingPreacher

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, orPresbyterian

 denominat

ion

first permanent European settler in

West Virginia

Morgan 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 peopleto work for the slaveholder

slavery

three ways could a settler

claim land

Tomahawk RightsCorn 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 treeto kill the tree and make it easier to remove from the

ground

girdling

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 acat 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 arrowBird callingHunting andFishing

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

DanielBoone

George Clendenin settlement

Charleston

Morgan Morgan

settlement

Bunker Hill

John Simpson

settlement

Clarksburg

Zackquill Morgan

settlement

Morgantown

Steven SewellJacob Marlin

settlement

Marlinton

Shepards Family

settlement

Shepardstown

Pringle brothers

settlement

Buckhannon

Robert FilesDavid 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