West Virginia Studies

Chapter 8-3 Review

“Life in Early Settlements”

Most pioneer entertainment was actually

what?

Work made fun

two examples of gatherings where they not only did work but

they also traded stories and recipes

Quilting and husking bees

provided a chance for the women and

children to get together and also

build a cabin

House raising

some of the games, children

to young to work, played

Hide and seek, tag, ring-around-the-rosie,

the biggest event of any year

Wedding

Who performed the ceremony at

the frontier wedding?

Circuit-riding preacher

gathered at the brides house the morning of the

wedding

Girls “not

spoken for”

the groom’s friends

Pranksters and

rascals

some of the most common dances

Irish jigs, square dances, and Virginia Reels

the space under the roof of the cabin

loft

noisy serenade to the newly wed couple

shivaree

Game played with glass spheres?

marbles

Game played with pocket

knifes?

Mombley peg

popular recreational

activities were actually survival

skills

Hunting and fishing

Whose job it was to cut and

prepare timber?

Lumberjacks

Each town had it’s own champion

of this form or entertainment?

Horseshoe pitching

a meeting to reawaken interest in religion

Revival or camp meeting

a disease to be spread by

contact or close association

contagious

cure for St. Anthony’s

fire

Rub the blood of a black cat

on the wound

the most common

childhood disease

Croup

the cure for the croup

A large dose of the juice of a roasted onion or

garlic

the cure for

fever

Concoction made of

snake root

the most feared 18th Century disease

Smallpox

the cure for worms

Large doses of salt or

scrapings of pewter

an outbreak of a disease that spreads rapidly

epidemic

An injection or shot to protect

against a disease is called what?

vaccination

the English physician that developed a

vaccination for smallpox

Edward Jenner

What lung diseases were

generally refereed to as?

Consumption

the drawing of “bad blood”

from the body

bleeding

caused by the bite of

a rabid animal

Rabies or hydrophobia

developed a serum for the treatment of

rabies

Louis Pasteur

Gunshot wounds were often fatal

because the musket balls

were made of

Lead

Dentistry was practiced without

the aid of a

Anesthetic

the belief that an event can be influenced by certain actions

Superstition

used as a spring tonic, to give you

energy, and to help thin your

blood

Sassafras tea

Name the pioneer cure

for the following:

rheumatism

1. putting heated rocks on feet 2. rubbing bear grease on joints 3. lying with feet close to a fire

Colds

catnip tea

Blood poisoning

smartwood tea

Pneumonia

sage tea

Fever

rattlesnake bones in a

pouch around the

neck

Nose bleed

red beads in a bag around

the neck

Arthritis

copper bracelets

Chapped lips

kiss the middle rail of a five

rail fence

Warts

wash in rain water from a oak stump

Rash

wash in the morning dew or honey and butter milk

Freckles

wash in blacksmith’s

water

Seizures

stripping off the

shirt and burning it

Toothache

hog’s tooth in a pocket

Earache

pouring tobacco

juice in ear

What was more important on the frontier

than education?

Struggle to survive