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Pioneer Life Lets explore family from the past!

Pioneer Life Lets explore family from the past!. Understanding Pioneer History. Living History Farms – Let’s take a visit!. Westward Expansion When, why, and how? Click on the prairie below to watch a movie and find out!. Why not build a log house?.

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Pioneer Life Lets explore family from the past!

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  1. Pioneer LifeLets explore family from the past!

  2. Understanding Pioneer History • Living History Farms – Let’s take a visit!

  3. Westward ExpansionWhen, why, and how?Click on the prairie below to watch a movie and find out!

  4. Why not build a log house? Did all pioneers live in a log home? Why or why not?

  5. Five Frontiers of the Iowa Pioneers

  6. Indian Land Cessions

  7. Pioneer Detectives Mystery Photo from Campsilos Share with your group your guesses. Keep track in your journals what you are thinking! Also brainstorm other ways you think farming has changed from the past to now.

  8. Clearing a field of grasshoppers in 1875. The environmental problems of raising a crop in a hostile environment also plagued western farmers. Droughts and bitter winter blizzards, great hail storms sweeping across the prairies that could flatten a ripened wheat field in minutes, diseases of grain and animal crops, all made economic survival perilous. In the 1870s, waves of grasshoppers moved across the plains at will, devouring everything in their path

  9. Grasshopper & Locust Background • Let’s Look at some more information about the plagues of grasshoppers and locusts!

  10. ANNALS OF IOWAVol. 4, No. 46 July, 1900 THE GRASSHOPPER INVASION.BY THE LATE EX-GOV. CYRUS C. CARPENTER

  11. Surviving on the Frontier! • Would you be a survivor?

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