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PIONEERS

BY HAYLIE TUCKER

Pioneers

Westward Expansion 


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PIONEERS

BY HAYLIE TUCKER

Table of contents Introduction .........................................page 3 Pioneers planting............................page 4 The homestead act...................page 5 Pioneers jobs..........................page 6 Fun facts ...........................page 7 Conclusion............................page 8

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Introduction In my book you will be learning about the pioneers on the westward expansion like why the pioneers moved and what trails they traveled on and how hard and long they where.

And what the name pioneer means and the home stead act i hope you learn a lot on the pioneers writing about the pioneers was interesting for me i hope it is interesting for you i hope you like my book.

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Pioneers planting Most pioneers needed there gardens to survive but it was hard to handle the whole garden on your own so the women do planting and gardening. The garden is usually only a few steps away from the house. The pioneers started gardening around spring to get food growing when winter comes the pioneers start storing food in the underground seller to keep all the food in the winter.

The pioneers needed the garden to grow food to supply the family including all the cattle and cow. Most of the time they needed to feed the horses the children also helped with gardening gardening was a very important thing for the pioneers because they needed food to supply for the family and animals. 

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The homestead act The pioneers definitely needed somewhere to live once they got to Oregon. The homestead act is giving free land to new pioneers. The homestead was usually a few hundred acres of land. You might think they could just go to the homestead and unpack in a nice warm house but thats not how it works. The pioneers would have to sleep in the wagon if there was room.

They had to build there own house on the homestead. You might think the children got to play all day but they had to help there parents get the house built. The children had to collect oils to help make windows or collect wood. The pioneers needed to build on there homestead to live. Nowadays houses are really high tech and are a lot sturdier than back then for example we have two stories and TV's and they had probably a one story house or just a wagon and definitely no TV's.

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Pioneers jobs The men and women had different jobs the woman did baking cleaning gardening and they usually took care of the children the men did chopping wood if they could find trees to get wood they fixed things my opinion is it may have been really hard to live in those times we have less jobs then they did.

The women had to bake or cook so they could eat healthy food and not eat raw meat. They had to clean or they would get sick or dirty and they couldn't take baths very much. They needed to garden for fruits and vegetables. And they couldn't leave the children unattended incase something happened.

The men had to get wood and chop wood if they could find trees so they could make a fire if it got really cold at night. The men also needed to fix thing if they got broken so if it was important they had to fix it because usually they could not afford much. There jobs where really important if they did not do them it would not be very good.

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Fun facts You might think that pioneers lives weren't so cool or fun well i have fun facts you probably never new about pioneers or should i say pioneers and settlers.

Pioneers are men settler are women Pioneers are men well pioneers are the active working hard doing fixing thing or chopping wood witch only men did back then the women just move with there families then settled down with there families so women are settlers men are pioneers

Today your gardens aren't close to your house the pioneer houses had there gardens only a few steps away there gardens where huge they lived of there food and garden

Back in the 1800s the pioneers could do more than the settlers witch means men had more WESTWARD EXPANSION

rights than women did.

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The gardens had vegetables fruit such as strawberries tomatoes lettuce potatoes and other fruits and vegetables.

Conclusion I hope you liked my writing about the pioneers it was really interesting for me to write about i hope it was interesting for you to read about i hope you found something you don't know but that you have learned a lot about the pioneers. For more information the websites i used where wikipedia.org and history.org .

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