Important People
The travelers along the Oregon Trail were the first non-Native people to settle the land known as..…
What is North America or current day Washington State.
How people fed themselves along the trail....
What is packed their own food, hunted or traded for food stuffs.
Name at least one way to cross the river.
What is 1.Emigrants could use a ferry, 2. They could caulk their wagons and float them across the river. 3. They could ford the river. 4. find another way around (bridge or different point along river)
Some jobs settlers took included...
What are farmers, miners, loggers, fishery/cannery work, cooking, housekeeping or blacksmiths.
Two reasons why travel was easier for emigrants now in the 1850s.
What wagons and pack animals are popular, there is an open path with maps, there are guides to get them there.
The most common type of transportation did most emigrants use to get to Oregon Country?
What is a covered wagon.
The territory for the Oregon Trail really included...
What is current day Washington State and Oregon.
A common food item travelers could find along the trail?
What is water/meat/berries/herbs?
Three common chores of trail/frontier children...
What are milking the cows, doing laundry, fetching water, helping the parents cook, doing dishes, and collecting woodchips for fire?
You used this to start a fire.
What are buffalo chips?
What was this land called back in 1950s.
What is Washington Territory or Oregon Country/Territory?
The main reason people settled land was the law called...
What is the Homestead Act?
The reason some people decided to abandon their old life.
What is they have just traveled 2,000miles by foot for 6 months (tired and ready to start over!)?
About how many people travelled during the Great Migration West?
What is 300,00 to 400,00.
Two reasons why accidental death occurred along the trail.
What is the lack of medical knowledge/supplies AND loss of food/animals or the actual trail.