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Scavenger Hunt
Answer the questions below by clicking on the link, exploring that
site and then inputing it into the boxes provided. When you're done answering all of the questions, click the button
at the bottom to check your answers.
Name:
City you live in:
1) What did westward bound emigrants expect to find when they got to their final destination? (Ilana)
http://www.americanwest.com/pages/wexpansi.htm
2) What was the Pioneer hat trend in the 1840's? (Ilana)
http://www.pinedale.com/misc/settlement.shtml
3) What was the name of Sydney county's first newspaper, published
for the pioneers who lived on the Ohio frontier? (Jane)
Both 3 and 4 use the same webpage
4) When was the first postal route established for the residents of
Ohio to use? (Jane)
http://www.shelbycountyhistory.org/schs/pioneers/
mnpioneerlifest.htm
5) What did California look like when pioneers were first settling
the land?(Sara)
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/pages/jb_1125_gold_3.
html
6) What was the apple used for during pioneer times?
(Sara)
http://www.genweb.brightusa.net/life.html
7) What was the Homestead Act? (Check the correct answer)
An act to
give land to the pioneers that were willing to travel west
An act to build new homes on the newly purchased land
An act to stop outlaws from traveling west
None of the above.
(Rocco)
Questions 7 and 8 share the same website
8) What were the requirements for the receiver of a land grant? (Rocco)
http://www.encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?z=
1&pg=2&ti=761557066
9) What is the most surprising ingredient in the "Hardship Recipe"
that the pioneers cooked with?
(Sara)
http://www.oocities.org/Heartland/Valley/6470/
wildp1.html
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