Ste Genevieve BINGO

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Gallery

Lead

Pirogue

Festivals

Village

Buckskin

Salt

Pierre Laclede

Calico

Voyageurs

Africa

Portage

Hunting and Fishing

Merchants

Valle

Grand Champ

Workers mined this metal from the ground in Ste Genevieve.  It was used for bullets, in roofs and in windows.

People boiled water to get this mineral that was left behind.  It was used to flavor food and to keep meat from rotting.

 

This family had 14 children but 7 of them died.  They were leaders in the town.  They were merchants and farmers and owned mills.

 

People who bought and sold goods from faraway places like New Orleans.

 

The place where people were forced on ships to come to Missouri to become slaves and work in the lead mines.

 

The type of town the French settlers lived in.  It was easier for people to defend themselves against Indian attacks, farm and help support a priest and a church.

 

A large porch that sometimes went around all four sides of a house.

 

The printed cotton that settlers bought from France and made into fashionable clothing.

 

The settlers’ favorite way to get their food.

 

What the French settlers did for fun!  These included food, dancing and music.

 

The great field where the entire village raised their crops of wheat, oats and barley.

 

Men that left for months to go up the Missouri River to trap animals and trade with Indians for furs.

 

This happened when men had to leave their boats and carry all their equipment and the furs on foot across land.

 

Leather material.  This was fashioned into clothing like pants and moccasins.

 A Frenchman from New Orleans who traveled up the Mississippi River to trade with the Indians in Missouri.  He brought his family and workers, including a son named Auguste Chouteau.

 

A hollowed-out log that looked like a canoe. (Hint: starts with a p)