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At Home in the Heartland: At Home on the Fringes of the Prairie (1800 1850) WebsiteAt Home in the Heartland: At Home on the Fringes of the Prairie (1800 1850) Website
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3rd - 5th
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Social Studies & History
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At Home in the Heartland: At Home on the Fringes of the Prairie (1800 1850)

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Interactive site offers information and pictures pertaining to early pioneer life. See advertisements in the paper, furniture, glassware, and food preparation tools. Read stories of individuals who lived during that time and make decisions about problems they faced.

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Concepts

pioneers, westward expansion

Additional Tags

frontier, frontier home, pioneer life, prairie life, settlers values, western expansion, history of illinois, a nation expanding west (1790-1860)

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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