West Virginia Studies Chapter 8-3 Review

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West Virginia Studies Chapter 8-3 ReviewLife
in Early Settlements
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Most pioneer entertainment was actually what?
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Work made fun
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two examples of gatherings where they not only
did work but they also traded stories and recipes
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Quilting and husking bees
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provided a chance for the women and children to
get together and also build a cabin
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House raising
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some of the games, children to young to work,
played
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Hide and seek, tag, ring-around-the-rosie,
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the biggest event of any year
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Wedding
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Who performed the ceremony at the frontier
wedding?
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Circuit-riding preacher
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gathered at the brides house the morning of the
wedding
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Girls not spoken for
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the grooms friends
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Pranksters and rascals
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some of the most common dances
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Irish jigs, square dances, and Virginia Reels
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the space under the roof of the cabin
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loft
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noisy serenade to the newly wed couple
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shivaree
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Game played with glass spheres?
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marbles
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Game played with pocket knifes?
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Mombley peg
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popular recreational activities were actually
survival skills
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Hunting and fishing
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Whose job it was to cut and prepare timber?
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Lumberjacks
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Each town had its own champion of this form or
entertainment?
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Horseshoe pitching
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a meeting to reawaken interest in religion
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Revival or camp meeting
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a disease to be spread by contact or close
association
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contagious
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cure for St. Anthonys fire
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Rub the blood of a black cat on the wound
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the most common childhood disease
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Croup
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the cure for the croup
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A large dose of the juice of a roasted onion or
garlic
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the cure for fever
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Concoction made of snake root
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the most feared 18th Century disease
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Smallpox
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the cure for worms
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Large doses of salt or scrapings of pewter
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an outbreak of a disease that spreads rapidly
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epidemic
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An injection or shot to protect against a disease
is called what?
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vaccination
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the English physician that developed a
vaccination for smallpox
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Edward Jenner
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What lung diseases were generally refereed to as?
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Consumption
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the drawing of bad blood from the body
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bleeding
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caused by the bite of a rabid animal
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Rabies or hydrophobia
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developed a serum for the treatment of rabies
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Louis Pasteur
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Gunshot wounds were often fatal because the
musket balls were made of
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Lead
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Dentistry was practiced without the aid of a
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Anesthetic
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the belief that an event can be influenced by
certain actions
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Superstition
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used as a spring tonic, to give you energy, and
to help thin your blood
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Sassafras tea
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Name the pioneer cure for the following
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rheumatism
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1. putting heated rocks on feet 2. rubbing bear
grease on joints 3. lying with feet close to a
fire
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Colds
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catnip tea
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Blood poisoning
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smartwood tea
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Pneumonia
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sage tea
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Fever
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rattlesnake bones in a pouch around the neck
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Nose bleed
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red beads in a bag around the neck
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Arthritis
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copper bracelets
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Chapped lips
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kiss the middle rail of a five rail fence
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Warts
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wash in rain water from a oak stump
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Rash
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wash in the morning dew or honey and butter milk
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Freckles
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wash in blacksmiths water
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Seizures
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stripping off the shirt and burning it
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Toothache
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hogs tooth in a pocket
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Earache
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pouring tobacco juice in ear
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What was more important on the frontier than
education?
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Struggle to survive