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true or false to the folowing thanks
1: California was settled by the Spanish long before the first American wagon trains left for Oregon.
2: Most pioneers had no use for the buffalo that roamed the plains, so the vast majority of the buffalo were simply slaughtered for their hides.
3: The US government made the Native Americans live on reservations.
4: In the nineteenth century, it was expensive to buy government land for mining.
5: A lot of the animal work on frontier farms was done by horses.
6: Homesteading unsettled land was a fairly easy job.
7: Many business people were attracted to Western frontier settlements.
8: Daily life on the frontier involved doing a lot of chores.
9: Schools were not present on the American frontier.
10: On the American frontier the men did very little cooking and cleaning.
1. True – They started in San Diego in 1769. The wagon trains began over 60 years later. See first website.
2. True – They would take some of the meat, but mostly just take the hides and leave the carcass to rot in the sun.
3. True – Obviously the Natives didn’t go there on their own.
4. False – see 2nd website.
5. True – Some used oxen, others used horses.
6. False – Clear the land, till the soil, live through harsh summers and winters.
7. True – Especially to mining settlements where they were trying to get in on part of riches.
8. True – No doubt.
9. False – Schools were one of the first common buildings to go up.
10. True – That was women’s work. The men were busy clearing land, plowing, etc.
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