2. West Virginia Studies Chapter 8-3 Review “Life in Early Settlements”

3. Most pioneer entertainment was actually what?

4. Work made fun

6. two examples of gatherings where they not only did work but they also traded stories and recipes

7. Quilting and husking bees

10. provided a chance for the women and children to get together and also build a cabin

12. House raising

13. some of the games, children to young to work, played

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

15. the biggest event of any year

16. Wedding

17. Who performed the ceremony at the frontier wedding?

18. Circuit-riding preacher

19. gathered at the brides house the morning of the wedding

20. Girls “not spoken for”

21. the groom’s friends

22. Pranksters and rascals

23. some of the most common dances

24. Irish jigs, square dances, and Virginia Reels

25. the space under the roof of the cabin

26. loft

27. noisy serenade to the newly wed couple

28. shivaree

29. Game played with glass spheres?

30. marbles

31. Game played with pocket knifes?

32. Mombley peg

33. popular recreational activities were actually survival skills

34. Hunting and fishing

35. Whose job it was to cut and prepare timber?

36. Lumberjacks

37. Each town had it’s own champion of this form or entertainment?

38. Horseshoe pitching

39. a meeting to reawaken interest in religion

40. Revival or camp meeting

41. a disease to be spread by contact or close association

42. contagious

43. cure for St. Anthony’s fire

44. Rub the blood of a black cat on the wound

45. the most common childhood disease

46. Croup

47. the cure for the croup

48. A large dose of the juice of a roasted onion or garlic

49. the cure for fever

50. Concoction made of snake root

51. the most feared 18 th Century disease

52. Smallpox

53. the cure for worms

54. Large doses of salt or scrapings of pewter

55. an outbreak of a disease that spreads rapidly

56. epidemic

57. An injection or shot to protect against a disease is called what?

58. vaccination

59. the English physician that developed a vaccination for smallpox

60. Edward Jenner

61. What lung diseases were generally refereed to as?

62. Consumption

63. the drawing of “bad blood” from the body

64. bleeding

65. caused by the bite of a rabid animal

66. Rabies or hydrophobia

67. developed a serum for the treatment of rabies

68. Louis Pasteur

69. Gunshot wounds were often fatal because the musket balls were made of

70. Lead

71. Dentistry was practiced without the aid of a

72. Anesthetic

73. the belief that an event can be influenced by certain actions

74. Superstition

75. used as a spring tonic, to give you energy, and to help thin your blood

76. Sassafras tea

77. Name the pioneer cure for the following:

78. rheumatism

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

80. Colds

81. catnip tea

82. Blood poisoning

83. smartwood tea

84. Pneumonia

85. sage tea

86. Fever

87. rattlesnake bones in a pouch around the neck

88. Nose bleed

89. red beads in a bag around the neck

90. Arthritis

91. copper bracelets

92. Chapped lips

93. kiss the middle rail of a five rail fence

95. Warts

96. wash in rain water from a oak stump

97. Rash

98. wash in the morning dew or honey and butter milk

99. Freckles

100. wash in blacksmith’s water

101. Seizures

102. stripping off the shirt and burning it

103. Toothache

104. hog’s tooth in a pocket

105. Earache

106. pouring tobacco juice in ear

107. What was more important on the frontier than education?

108. Struggle to survive