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Quiz will be Wednesday November 7
West Virginia History
Chapter 6: The War for the Ohio Valley
Pages 102-104
1. Where was Wills Creek? Answer: Present Day Cumberland, Maryland
2. Who cut a path from Wills Creek to where the Ohio River begins near present day Pittsburgh? Answer: Thomas Cresap and Nemacolin a Delaware Indian
3. What was this path known as? Answer: Nemacolin Path
4. What was the Treaty of Logstown? Answer: The Delaware and Shawnee gave up the Ohio Valley
5. When did the first conflict between the French and the British occur? Answer: 1753
6. Who was governor of Virginia? Answer: Robert Dinwiddie
7. Who did the governor send on a diplomatic mission? Answer: George Washington
8. How did the French receive the message from the governor of Virginia? Answer: They rejected the message.
9. Describe what happened to George Washington on his return to Williamsburg? Answer: They fell out of the boat they nearly froze, and hostile Native Americans shot at them.
10. Where did Washington say would be a good place to build a fort? Answer: At the Forks of the Ohio near present day Pittsburgh, PA
11. Who did Governor Dinwiddie send to build a fort? Answer: Capt. William Trent
12. What happened to the fort that he started to build at the forks of the Ohio? Answer: The French burned it then built a fort of their own.
13. What was the name of the fort that the French built at the forks of the Ohio? Answer: Duquesne
14. Where was Great Meadows located? Answer: Just south of Pittsburgh
15. What was a skirmish? Answer a small battle
Quiz will be Wednesday November 7
West Virginia History
Chapter 6: The War for the Ohio Valley
Pages 102-104
1. Where was Wills Creek? Answer: Present Day Cumberland, Maryland
2. Who cut a path from Wills Creek to where the Ohio River begins near present day Pittsburgh? Answer: Thomas Cresap and Nemacolin a Delaware Indian
3. What was this path known as? Answer: Nemacolin Path
4. What was the Treaty of Logstown? Answer: The Delaware and Shawnee gave up the Ohio Valley
5. When did the first conflict between the French and the British occur? Answer: 1753
6. Who was governor of Virginia? Answer: Robert Dinwiddie
7. Who did the governor send on a diplomatic mission? Answer: George Washington
8. How did the French receive the message from the governor of Virginia? Answer: They rejected the message.
9. Describe what happened to George Washington on his return to Williamsburg? Answer: They fell out of the boat they nearly froze, and hostile Native Americans shot at them.
10. Where did Washington say would be a good place to build a fort? Answer: At the Forks of the Ohio near present day Pittsburgh, PA
11. Who did Governor Dinwiddie send to build a fort? Answer: Capt. William Trent
12. What happened to the fort that he started to build at the forks of the Ohio? Answer: The French burned it then built a fort of their own.
13. What was the name of the fort that the French built at the forks of the Ohio? Answer: Duquesne
14. Where was Great Meadows located? Answer: Just south of Pittsburgh
15. What was a skirmish? Answer a small battle
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These notes will be for a Quiz Thursday for 7th period and Friday for First period.
West Virginia History
Chapter 6 The War for the Ohio Valley
Pages 99-101
1. Why does our book say that setters to the Ohio Valley between 1730 and 1755 lived in a transitional period? Answer: Because both expolers and settlers were here it was called a transtional period.
2. In which direction did the frontier move as more settlers came to the area?
answer:The frontier moved west.
3. What brought conflict to the Ohio Valley? Answer: The world wide rivarly between France and Great Britain.
4. What was the war between the French and the British called in Europe? Answer: The Seven Years War
5. What two nations claimed the land of present day West Virginia? Answer: France and Great Britain
6. Who claimed land for each of these countries? Batts and Fallam claimed land for England.............La Salle Claimed land for France.......de Blainville buried lead plates strengthening France's land claim.
7. How was the view of land by Native Americans different than the settlers? Answer: Native Americans believed the land was to be used, but one didn't own it. The Settlers wanted to own the land and keep it forever.
8. How did Native Americans and British view of treaties differ? Answer: Native Americans saw them as changeable while the British saw them as binding.
9. What was the main interest in the land by the French? Answer: trapping and selling furs
10. How did that help the Native Americans choose to side with the French? Answer:
The Native American's use of the land waw more similar to the French than to the British.
West Virginia History
Chapter 6 The War for the Ohio Valley
Pages 99-101
1. Why does our book say that setters to the Ohio Valley between 1730 and 1755 lived in a transitional period? Answer: Because both expolers and settlers were here it was called a transtional period.
2. In which direction did the frontier move as more settlers came to the area?
answer:The frontier moved west.
3. What brought conflict to the Ohio Valley? Answer: The world wide rivarly between France and Great Britain.
4. What was the war between the French and the British called in Europe? Answer: The Seven Years War
5. What two nations claimed the land of present day West Virginia? Answer: France and Great Britain
6. Who claimed land for each of these countries? Batts and Fallam claimed land for England.............La Salle Claimed land for France.......de Blainville buried lead plates strengthening France's land claim.
7. How was the view of land by Native Americans different than the settlers? Answer: Native Americans believed the land was to be used, but one didn't own it. The Settlers wanted to own the land and keep it forever.
8. How did Native Americans and British view of treaties differ? Answer: Native Americans saw them as changeable while the British saw them as binding.
9. What was the main interest in the land by the French? Answer: trapping and selling furs
10. How did that help the Native Americans choose to side with the French? Answer:
The Native American's use of the land waw more similar to the French than to the British.
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West Virginia History
The Settlers Chapter 5 Pages 91-93 Quiz Monday October 29, 2012
Study Guide Notes:
1. What were some types of social gatherings on the frontier?
Answer: Quilting Bees, House and Barn raisings, butchering a hog.
2. How did boys learn skills through their recreational activities? They learn to hunt and fish to provide food for the family. They also learned how to take care of the farm, plow and raise crops.
3. What was the origin of the Southern Mountain dialect? It was the language spoken by the early settlers, and since they had little contact with the outside world they did not pick up on changes in the language.
4. Give some examples of Appalachian dialect? Reckon so = I suppose
Redd up = clean up
Smooch= kiss
5. What kinds of instruments were common on the frontier? Banjos, guitars, and fiddles. These instruments were easy to carry across the mountains.
6. Early settlers were primarily concerned with? Early settlers were concerned with survival, both getting food for immediate use and storing food to last through the winter.
What did girls on the frontier learn from their mothers? Girls learned how to cook and preserve food, to sew, to make quilts and clothes, to take care of the home and children.
7. What did friends do to a couple getting married? Pull pranks, such as putting trees or boulders across the road making it difficult for the groom to arrive.
The Settlers Chapter 5 Pages 91-93 Quiz Monday October 29, 2012
Study Guide Notes:
1. What were some types of social gatherings on the frontier?
Answer: Quilting Bees, House and Barn raisings, butchering a hog.
2. How did boys learn skills through their recreational activities? They learn to hunt and fish to provide food for the family. They also learned how to take care of the farm, plow and raise crops.
3. What was the origin of the Southern Mountain dialect? It was the language spoken by the early settlers, and since they had little contact with the outside world they did not pick up on changes in the language.
4. Give some examples of Appalachian dialect? Reckon so = I suppose
Redd up = clean up
Smooch= kiss
5. What kinds of instruments were common on the frontier? Banjos, guitars, and fiddles. These instruments were easy to carry across the mountains.
6. Early settlers were primarily concerned with? Early settlers were concerned with survival, both getting food for immediate use and storing food to last through the winter.
What did girls on the frontier learn from their mothers? Girls learned how to cook and preserve food, to sew, to make quilts and clothes, to take care of the home and children.
7. What did friends do to a couple getting married? Pull pranks, such as putting trees or boulders across the road making it difficult for the groom to arrive.
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Chapter 5 Recreation on the Frontier and Language
Settlers in western Virginia were primarily concerned with survival. This was a full-time job. Because there was so much work to do on the frontier, recreation sometimes took the form of work. If a family needed land cleared of trees or stumps, they could invite their neighbors to help. This gathering would complete the job and while the host family provided a meal. Other gatherings centered round work and socialization included, house or barn raisings, corn husking, quilting bees, and hog killings. Neighbors helped neighbors for the benefit of all.’
Other activities were meant to teach skills that were needed for survival. Young boys were taught to hunt and fish. Although hunting and fishing were recreational activities, they were also necessary to provide food for the family. Girls worked with their mothers learning to preserve food for the winter making clothes, quilts and other items needed for the home.
Weddings were important events in pioneer days; they were a cause for celebration. On the day of the weeding the groom might find trees and boulders blocking his path to the bride’s house as his friends were likely to play pranks on him.
The wedding ceremony was commonly performed by a circuit-riding preacher. After the ceremony was followed by a big dinner and dancing to music provided by Banjos, guitars and fiddles common instruments on the frontier.
Language
Many words and phrases still used today have their beginnings in the early mountain culture. The area settled by the Scots-Irish. The dialect spoken in the mountains is commonly referred to as the Southern Mountain dialect. It has been called Elizabethan English, named for the period of history it represents.
An example of the mountain language is the use of backset for “relapse” as in “I was getting better by now I’ve done took a backset from the flu.” Other examples include: Nigh wearied myself to death, for very worried. I recon so for “I suppose,” wasper for “wasp” press for “closet”, red up for “clean up,” smooch for kiss,” and let on for “pretend,” Another example of a phrase would be, “I woke up to find a skift of snow on the ground” meaning a small amount of snow.
Adapted from Chapter 5 The Settlers pages 91-93
Settlers in western Virginia were primarily concerned with survival. This was a full-time job. Because there was so much work to do on the frontier, recreation sometimes took the form of work. If a family needed land cleared of trees or stumps, they could invite their neighbors to help. This gathering would complete the job and while the host family provided a meal. Other gatherings centered round work and socialization included, house or barn raisings, corn husking, quilting bees, and hog killings. Neighbors helped neighbors for the benefit of all.’
Other activities were meant to teach skills that were needed for survival. Young boys were taught to hunt and fish. Although hunting and fishing were recreational activities, they were also necessary to provide food for the family. Girls worked with their mothers learning to preserve food for the winter making clothes, quilts and other items needed for the home.
Weddings were important events in pioneer days; they were a cause for celebration. On the day of the weeding the groom might find trees and boulders blocking his path to the bride’s house as his friends were likely to play pranks on him.
The wedding ceremony was commonly performed by a circuit-riding preacher. After the ceremony was followed by a big dinner and dancing to music provided by Banjos, guitars and fiddles common instruments on the frontier.
Language
Many words and phrases still used today have their beginnings in the early mountain culture. The area settled by the Scots-Irish. The dialect spoken in the mountains is commonly referred to as the Southern Mountain dialect. It has been called Elizabethan English, named for the period of history it represents.
An example of the mountain language is the use of backset for “relapse” as in “I was getting better by now I’ve done took a backset from the flu.” Other examples include: Nigh wearied myself to death, for very worried. I recon so for “I suppose,” wasper for “wasp” press for “closet”, red up for “clean up,” smooch for kiss,” and let on for “pretend,” Another example of a phrase would be, “I woke up to find a skift of snow on the ground” meaning a small amount of snow.
Adapted from Chapter 5 The Settlers pages 91-93
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Homework This assignment was due Today October 24. However, I will take it late if a student wants to copy it from this web page.
West Virginia History Chapter 5
Source Document 3:
The Voyage of the Osgood
The Osgood carried indentured servants and others to America in 1750. The following account describes the situation of Gottlieb Mittelberger, a church organist from Germany. Passengers on the Osgood arrived in Philadelphia, but many of them eventually found their way to western Virginia.
Both in Rotterdam and in Amsterdam the people are packed densely, like herrings, so to say, in the large sea-vessels. One person receives a place of scarcely 2 feel width and 6 feet length in the bedstead while many a ship carries four to six hundred souls……
When the ships have for the last time weighed their anchors near the city of Kaupp (Cowes) in Old England, the real misery begins with the long voyage. For from there the ships, unless they have a good wind, must often sail 8,9,10 to 12 weeks before they reach Philadelphia. But even in the best wind the voyage lasts 7 weeks.
But during the voyage there is on board these ships terrible misery, stench, fumes, horror, vomiting, and many kinds of sea-sickness, fever, dysentery, headache, heat, constipation, boils, scurvy, cancer, mouth-rot, and the like, all of which come from old and sharply salted food and meat, also from very bad and foul water, so that many die miserably.
Add to this want of provisions, hunger, thirst, frost, heat, dampness, anxiety, want, afflictions and lamentations, together with other trouble as…the lice abound so frightful, especially on sick people, that they can be scraped of the body. The misery reaches the climax when a gale rages for 2 or 3 nights and days, so that everyone believes that the ship will go to the bottom with all human beings on board. In such a visitation the people cry and pray most piteously.
When in such a gale the sea rages and surges, so that the waves rise often like high mountains one above the other, and often tumble over the ship, so that one fears to go down with the ship; when the ship is constantly tossed from side to side by the storm and waves, so that one can either walk, or sit, or lie, and the closely packed people in the berths are thereby tumbled over each other, both the sick and the well-it will be readily understood that many of these people, none of whom had been prepared for hardships suffer so terribly from them that they do not survive it…
When the ships have landed at Philadelphia after their long voyage, no one is permitted to leave them except those who pay for their passage or can give good security; the others, who cannot pay, must remain on board the ships till they are purchased, and are released from the ships by their purchasers. The sick always fare the worst, for the healthy are naturally preferred and purchased first; and so the sick and wretched must often remain on board in front of the city for 2 or 3 weeks and frequently die, where many a one, if he could pay his debt and were permitted to leave the ship immediately, might recover and remain.
The sale of human beings in the market on board the ship is carried on thus: Every day Englishmen, Dutchmen and High-German people come from the city of Philadelphia and other places, in part from a great distance, say 20, 30, or 40 hours away, and go on board the newly arrived ship that has brought nd offers for sale passengers from Europe, and select among the healthy persons such as they deem suitable for their business, and bargain with them how long they will serve for their passage money, which most of them are still in debt for. When they have come to an agreement, it happens that adult persons bind themselves in writing to serve 3, 4, 5 or 6 years for the amount due by them, according to their age and strength. But very young people, from 10 to 15 years, must serve till they are 21 years old.
Source: Gottlieb Mittelberger, “On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants” (1754)
Directions: After you have read the document, answer the following questions in the space provided or on a separate sheet of paper.
1. How long was the voyage from England to America?
2. What was life like on the ship?
3. What happened when the ship landed in Philadelphia?
West Virginia History Chapter 5
Source Document 3:
The Voyage of the Osgood
The Osgood carried indentured servants and others to America in 1750. The following account describes the situation of Gottlieb Mittelberger, a church organist from Germany. Passengers on the Osgood arrived in Philadelphia, but many of them eventually found their way to western Virginia.
Both in Rotterdam and in Amsterdam the people are packed densely, like herrings, so to say, in the large sea-vessels. One person receives a place of scarcely 2 feel width and 6 feet length in the bedstead while many a ship carries four to six hundred souls……
When the ships have for the last time weighed their anchors near the city of Kaupp (Cowes) in Old England, the real misery begins with the long voyage. For from there the ships, unless they have a good wind, must often sail 8,9,10 to 12 weeks before they reach Philadelphia. But even in the best wind the voyage lasts 7 weeks.
But during the voyage there is on board these ships terrible misery, stench, fumes, horror, vomiting, and many kinds of sea-sickness, fever, dysentery, headache, heat, constipation, boils, scurvy, cancer, mouth-rot, and the like, all of which come from old and sharply salted food and meat, also from very bad and foul water, so that many die miserably.
Add to this want of provisions, hunger, thirst, frost, heat, dampness, anxiety, want, afflictions and lamentations, together with other trouble as…the lice abound so frightful, especially on sick people, that they can be scraped of the body. The misery reaches the climax when a gale rages for 2 or 3 nights and days, so that everyone believes that the ship will go to the bottom with all human beings on board. In such a visitation the people cry and pray most piteously.
When in such a gale the sea rages and surges, so that the waves rise often like high mountains one above the other, and often tumble over the ship, so that one fears to go down with the ship; when the ship is constantly tossed from side to side by the storm and waves, so that one can either walk, or sit, or lie, and the closely packed people in the berths are thereby tumbled over each other, both the sick and the well-it will be readily understood that many of these people, none of whom had been prepared for hardships suffer so terribly from them that they do not survive it…
When the ships have landed at Philadelphia after their long voyage, no one is permitted to leave them except those who pay for their passage or can give good security; the others, who cannot pay, must remain on board the ships till they are purchased, and are released from the ships by their purchasers. The sick always fare the worst, for the healthy are naturally preferred and purchased first; and so the sick and wretched must often remain on board in front of the city for 2 or 3 weeks and frequently die, where many a one, if he could pay his debt and were permitted to leave the ship immediately, might recover and remain.
The sale of human beings in the market on board the ship is carried on thus: Every day Englishmen, Dutchmen and High-German people come from the city of Philadelphia and other places, in part from a great distance, say 20, 30, or 40 hours away, and go on board the newly arrived ship that has brought nd offers for sale passengers from Europe, and select among the healthy persons such as they deem suitable for their business, and bargain with them how long they will serve for their passage money, which most of them are still in debt for. When they have come to an agreement, it happens that adult persons bind themselves in writing to serve 3, 4, 5 or 6 years for the amount due by them, according to their age and strength. But very young people, from 10 to 15 years, must serve till they are 21 years old.
Source: Gottlieb Mittelberger, “On the Misfortune of Indentured Servants” (1754)
Directions: After you have read the document, answer the following questions in the space provided or on a separate sheet of paper.
1. How long was the voyage from England to America?
2. What was life like on the ship?
3. What happened when the ship landed in Philadelphia?
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