Daniel Boone, Johnny Appleseed & Settlement West of Appalachians

Daniel Boone, Johnny Appleseed & Settlement West of Appalachians

Directions: Use 3-5 minutes to double check this subject’s Power School for your class grade and work listings verifying that all work is caught up. Read and heed embedded messages. Next, research your part of the following topics and figure out answers to the questions. Write your questions and detailed answers on lined paper or your notebook paper. These questions and related answers are required to be handed in, once the class discussion is completed. You are expected to use the time completely, be through and become knowledgeable. Write down any puzzles you have related to the material on your paper and bring them up during the class discussion. Warning: If you are found to be using your research time for other things, it will hurt your learning and grade. If you think or claim to be done, you are not! Once your assigned part is ready, then help others on your team or study the test resources from Mr. Spitzer’s web page for the upcoming test. No games, non-topic talk or other activities allowed during research time. The class will research as much as time allows before team sharing and whole class discussion. Since there is always more to learn, Mr. Spitzer encourages you to look into this topic more on your own time. Your class work grade includes: 1. Entire use of time while researching. 2. Answer questions & pay attention during team sharing. 3. Paying attention & participate during class discussion. 4. Turning in your readable questions & notes. Team members who do not do their share, provide hasty sloppy answers, disrupt others and use time ineffectivelyin the four grade aspects will be removed from the team and required to write out and turn in all answers on their own for the grade.

Topics to Research

Daniel Boone – life, hunting trips, settlement of Boonesborough, conflicts with Indians, later life including leaving Kentucky and living in Missouri, legends & known facts

Johnny Appleseed – life, wanderings, apple connections, legends and known facts

Creation of Western Routes: Jonesboro Road, Natchez Trace, Wilderness Road, Forbes Road, Zane’s Trace, Great Genesee Road

Early settlements of states: Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois

Birth, childhood and teenage years of Abraham Lincoln

Questions to be able to discuss

1. Who is Daniel Boone? Summarize his life, hunting trips, settlement of Boonesborough, encounters with Indians, why he left Kentucky, life in Missouri, death. As you answer explain which are the known facts and what are some of legends.
2. Who is Johnny Appleseed? Where did he wander? Explain what he did with apples. Describe Johnny as a Christian missionary and how he related to Indians. Recount some of the legends and what are the known facts?
3. Explain how the western route of ______was created and why it became an important pioneer and trade route. Explain the geographic locations of this route.
4. Recount the early settlement of the later state of ______. Who were some of the important pioneers for this state and what did they accomplish? How did the Indians react to white settlement?
5. Recount the birth, childhood, and teenage years of Abraham Lincoln.

Written: Write at least three paragraphs answering your choice of the following questions:

1. Hypothesize your own life and choices if you finished growing up from your current age and lived in the U.S. from 1790s to 1830s. Would you move west? Explain and support your answers.
2. Were Daniel Boone’s settlement of Kentucky difficulties, along with the Indian warfare events worth the cost to him in lives of those close to him? Explain and support your answers. What would you have done? Why?