Vocabulary
Mountain Men
The Oregon Trail
Life in the West
Ch 13, S2 Map Skills
100
Fur trappers of the Northeast
What are mountain men?
100
Conditions the mountain men endured on their travels.
What is enduring bitter cold, intense heat, and attacks from wild animals?
100
First easterners to build permanent homes in Oregon.
Who are missionaries?
100
The kind of hardships the settlers faced in the west.
What is disease, accidents, and natural disaster?
100
According to the map, how many forts were their on route to the West...
There are 6 forts located on the map.
200
A meeting where the trappers would trade furs for supplies
What are rendezvous
200
The type of fur that was in high demand in the East.
What is beaver fur?
200
The two states that the Oregon Trail stretched between.
What are Oregon and Missouri?
200
Woman in the west were able to...
What is working along side the men?
200
The two countries that had route to the West....
What is the United States and Mexico?
300
A German immigrant who established the American Fur Company in 1808 at Fort Astor, now Astoria, Oregon.
Who is John Jacob Astor?
300
A famous mountain man who was attacked by a grizzly bear.
Who is Jedediah Smith?
300
The two main causes for the loss of a traveler on the Oregon Trail.
What is disease and accidents?
300
The first territory that gave woman the right to vote
What is the Wyoming territory?
300
Mountain range the United States routes went through
What are the Rocky Mountains?
400
Led a wagon train filled with merchandise from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, Mexico.
Who is William Becknell?
400
Some activities that mountain men did at rendezvous
What is singing, laughing, and competing in contests?
400
Travelers on the Oregon Trail traveled by.....
What is by covered wagons?
400
The Native Americans lived in what in the west.
What is living in uneasy peace with white settlers?
400
Town furthest east that routes from the United States started
What is Nauvoo?
500
The two people who set up a mission in Oregon to server the Cayuse Indians
Who are Marcus and Narcissa Whitman?
500
Some jobs mountain men did after beaver fur became rare.
What are farmers, merchants, or bankers?
500
One way travelers made their wagon lighter was by...
What is the discarding of person items?
500
Discovery that caused many new settlers to come to Oregon
What is the discovery of gold in northern Oregon?
500
Town that a Mexican route and United States route merged
What is Santa Fe Albuquerque?
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