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Chapter 9: Life in Early Texas Section 2: Daily Life on the Frontier

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Page 1: TX History Ch 9.2

Chapter 9: Life in Early Texas

Section 2: Daily Life on the Frontier

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Bellwork

•Define “self-

sufficient”

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Settlers in Texas learned many skills because they had

to do so many things for

themselves.

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Frontier Homes

•Had to rely on materials on hand

•South and West—many Tejanos lived in flat-roofed adobe or stone houses

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Frontier Homes

• Jacales—small huts made of sticks and mud

• Log cabins built where lumber trees were plentiful Modern-day replica of a

log cabin

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Frontier Homes

•Dogtrot Cabin—log homes with two rooms separated by an open passage; type of shelter found in early settlements

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Frontier Homes

• Settlers furnished items in home

• Furnishings were simple, sturdy, and handmade

• Some furnishings both beautiful and functional—quilts

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Frontier Homes

•Quilting Bees—quilting groups

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Clothing in Early Texas

•Settlers used local materials to make clothes

•Leather clothing common

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Clothing in Early Texas

•Buckskin—tanned deer hide

Buckskin Clothing

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Clothing in Early Texas

•By the 1830s homespun cotton replaced buckskin

•Cotton used for dresses, bonnets, shirts, and suits

•Ponchos: cotton blankets with a slit for the head

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Clothing in Early Texas

•Ready-to-wear clothing becomes available as Texas towns grow

•Expensive due to shipping costs

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Clothing in Early Texas

•Even after stores began to import ready-to-wear clothing, most

Texans continued making their own.

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Frontier Foods

•Self-reliant for food

•Settlers depended on crops, livestock, and wild game

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Frontier Foods• Most settlers

grew corn

• Grew well in Texas

• Easy to harvest and prepare, nutritious

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Frontier Foods

•Learned to prepare corn from the Native Americans

•Roasted or boiled corn on the cob

•Made cornmeal—used to make tortillas or corn bread

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Frontier Foods

•Corn used for feeding livestock

•Used for fuel

•Even used for items such as back scratchers, bottle stoppers, and fishing floats

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How is corn being used for fuel

today?

Ethanol

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Frontier Foods

•Vegetables

•Wild fruits sometimes available

•Pecans grew along many rivers

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Frontier Foods

• Settler’s typical meal: fried meat, cornbread, and black coffee

• Common meats: beef, pork, and venison

• Fish common around rivers and coastal areas

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Religion in Early Texas

•Roman Catholicism was the official religion of Mexico

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Religion in Early Texas

• Most settlers in Texas were Protestant and unwilling to change their beliefs

• Protestants would publicly declare they supported the Catholic Church, but privately worshipped how they pleased.

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Religion in Early Texas

•No organized Protestant churches existed in Texas under Mexican rule

•Protestant activity did occur—traveling preachers, camp meetings, Sunday schools

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Religion in Early Texas

•Thomas J. Pilgrim—organized a Protestant Sunday school in 1829

•Mexican officials usually ignored such activity

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Education on the Frontier

•Protestant teachers opened private schools

•Frances Trask—opened a boarding school for girls in 1835

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Education on the Frontier

•Education limited to home schooling or small private schools

•Wealthy Texans would send children to U.S. schools

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Education on the Frontier

• Coahuila y Texas constitution provided for the creation of a public school system

• Few towns had the funds for a school

• Capable teachers in short supply

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Education on the Frontier

• 1836: Texas had more than 20 schools

• Most children did not have access to education

• Demands of farm life kept many children in the fields

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