Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
100
What company did John Jacob Astor start?
AMERICAN FUR COMPANY
100
What is hard tack?
“NON-PERISHABLE” FOOD FOR TRAVELERS
100
What was the #1 fur wanted by the mountain men?
BEAVER, FOR HATS
100
What was the main economic cause of the “Oregon fever”?
PANIC OF 1837
100
Who built a mission among the Cayuse Indians near Walla Walla, Washington?
WHITMANS
200
Who gave up claims to Oregon in 1824?
RUSSIA
200
What American discovered South Pass?
JEDEDIAH SMITH
200
Who coined the term “manifest destiny”?
JOHN L. O’SULLIVAN
200
What was a “prairie schooner”?
COVERED WAGON
200
What four countries claimed Oregon?
US, GREAT BRITAIN, RUSSIA, SPAIN
300
What African American mountain man—an honorary Crow war chief--explored the Green River?
JIM BECKWOURTH
300
Why did the Cayuse attack the Whitmans?
BLAMED THEM FOR MEASLES EPIDEMIC
300
What name was given to the area west of the Rocky Mountains stretching from California to Alaska?
OREGON
300
Why did Joe Meek stick his hands into an anthill?
SO HE COULD EAT THE ANTS
300
What happened on the Amistad?
MUTINY ON A SLAVE SHIP
400
What were the two bases for the US claim to the Oregon country?
GRAY—AND THE USS COLUMBIA—DISCOVERING THE COLUMBIA RIVER AND LEWIS AND CLARK
400
What route did wagons use to get across the Continental Divide over the Rocky Mountains?
SOUTH PASS
400
What was the annual resupply of the mountain men known as?
RENDEZVOUS
400
What did Elizabeth Ann Seton found in 1809?
SISTERS OF CHARITY
400
What are the three main rivers the Oregon Trail followed?
PLATTE, SNAKE, COLUMBIA
500
What career did Jim Bridger and Kit Carson follow after the decline of the fur trade?
GUIDES FOR WAGON TRAINS
500
Where did Adams want to divide Oregon between the British and the US?
49TH PARALLEL
500
What did Polk want the northern border of US Oregon to be?
54-40 [UNLESS IT WAS JUST A bargaining position
500
What were the northern and southern boundaries of Oregon in 1846?
42 DEGREES [CALIFORNIA] AND 54-40 DEGREES [ALASKA]
500
Who gave up claims to Oregon under the Adams-Onis Treaty?
SPAIN
M
e
n
u