What do pioneers?

Answer 1

Pioneers were people who moved into uninhabited or undeveloped places. In the US, the pioneers went to the new lands of the West to seek a better life. They faced hardships against the weather, and had to find their water and grow their own food.

Life on the Prairie

Pioneers moved to different areas of the prairies and settled down to farm. They sometimes lived in one-room houses with walls made of sod. The problem with this is that bugs lived in the sod and weeds grew into the houses. Weather was also an obstacle. Winds could rip the roof off the sod houses, and heavy rains could ruin the structure.

Pioneer children did many of the chores like herding cattle, feeding chickens, and stacking hay. Life was hard but farmers "lived on hope." When the pioneers sat down for dinner, the adults ate before the children.

Pioneers came to the new lands because they could get free land from the government and make a life of their own.