chapter 9: life in early texas section 2: daily life on the frontier
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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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Frontier Foods
•Venison—deer meat
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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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