Wagons Head West
The Oregon Trail started in this state.
What is Missouri?
These are the four main reasons people moved so far and made such a long trip.
What are for adventure, for a chance to explore a beautiful new place and start a new life, to get away from problems in the east (such as slavery), and for land?
This is what you give up.
What is the cost?
The first houses families made once they got their land were these.
What are small, wooden cabins?
This is why Indians had to find new hunting grounds.
What is when the settlers cleared the trees to build farms, the animals had to find new homes?
This is the edge of settled land.
What is a frontier?
This means claim a piece of land, farm it for a certain number of years, and then own it for free or at a very low cost.
What is homestead?
This is what you get in return.
What is the benefit?
This is why the wooden cabins often had no windows.
What is because there was no place to buy glass in Oregon Country?
This is why the buffalo began to disappear, causing plains tribes to adapt.
What is more and more settlers were shooting buffalo, sometimes just for sport?
This is a person who comes to live in a new country.
What is an immigrant?
This is what settlers came to Oregon Country to do after the best farmland was gone.
What is start stores, hotels, or doctors' offices?
This is where most of the settlers started farms and towns.
What is the Willamette Valley?
This is what settlers made because they couldn't buy stoves or oil lamps.
What are stone fireplaces and candles?
Who is William Mason?
This is why the early settlers are called pioneers.
What is because they were among the first people to move to a new place and start settlements or towns?
What is black settlers were not welcome in the Willamette Valley?
These are the towns started small and grew larger as more and more settlers moved in.
What are Tumwater, Tacoma, Olympia, Centralia, Alki Point (Seattle), and Port Townsend?
This is what settlers liked to do after dark, by the light of a lamp.
What is tell stories, play guessing games, and play checkers?
This is what was disappearing along with the buffalo, according to the caption.
What is the Plains Indians' way of life?
This pioneer is quoted as saying, in 1851, "Sometimes the dust is so great that the drivers cannot see their teams of animals, though the sun is shining brightly."
Who is Elizabeth Wood?
What is he gave other settlers seeds and helped them start farms?
Leaders of this directed pioneers arriving in Oregon Country where to settle.
What is the Hudson's Bay Company?
These are the 5 things that happened at pioneer schoolhouses on the weekends.
What are dances, plays, spelling bees, singing classes, and town meetings?
These are the two effects of many Indians trading for guns.
What are they had new weapons and ways of hunting?