Oregon Trail
This trail was used by settlers traveling west for land and opportunity.
This event forced Native Americans to move west from their homes.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This type of natural obstacle, often underestimated by travelers, caused more deaths than attacks or theft.
What are rivers, mountains, or extreme weather?
Which U.S. president enforced the removal of Native Americans, despite Supreme Court rulings?
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The Oregon Trail and the Trail of Tears both involved moving westward, but one was voluntary. Which was it?
What is the Oregon Trail?
People often traveled west in these covered vehicles pulled by oxen.
What are wagons?
This Native American tribe was one of the groups forced to move.
Who are the Cherokee?
Explain how disease spread more quickly along trails like the Oregon Trail and the Trail of Tears.
What is close living quarters, poor sanitation, and lack of medical knowledge allowed diseases to spread rapidly?
These people traveled west hoping for land and a better life.
Who are settlers or pioneers?
Name one way that travel conditions were similar between the two journeys.
What is long distances on foot, exposure to weather, disease, limited supplies?
This U.S. government policy indirectly encouraged settlers to move west by offering cheap or free land.
What is the Homestead Act?
What river did some Cherokee groups have to cross during their journey?
What is the Mississippi River?
How did terrain influence travel speed?
What are mountains, rivers, and rough ground that slowed or stopped progress?
These missionaries tried to spread Christianity and “civilize” Native Americans along the Oregon Trail.
Who are Marcus and Narcissa Whitman?
How did disease impact both groups?
What is death, slowed travel, and weakened survivors?
This was the final destination for many settlers on the Oregon Trail.
What is the Willamette Valley?
This law passed in 1830 authorized the federal government to remove Native Americans from their ancestral lands.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
What role did exhaustion play in deaths?
What is weak bodies were more susceptible to disease or injury?
Name a Native American tribe involved in conflicts with settlers near missions.
What are the Cayuse?
What psychological impacts were unique to the Trail of Tears?
What is trauma from forced removal, fear of soldiers, loss of homeland?
This epidemic disease caused high death rates along the trail, particularly among children.
What is cholera?
The Cherokee challenged removal in this Supreme Court case.
What is Worcester v. Georgia?
Why did forced migrants on the Trail of Tears have fewer survival options?
What is unable to rest or change routes, was under armed supervision, and had limited supplies?
How did the government view Native Americans’ refusal to relocate?
What is resistance to federal law, resulting in forced removal and military enforcement?
How did government policy differ in encouraging versus forcing migration?
What is settlers who were incentivized (Homestead Act); Native Americans who were coerced (Indian Removal Act)?