The Trail
The Whitmans
Wagon Trains
Mountain Men
Misc.
100
The where the Oregon Trail ended.
What is Oregon Country?
100
The first name of the husband.
Who is Marcus Whitman?
100
How long the pioneers would travel every day on the Oregon Trail.
What is from dusk till dawn?
100
A trapper/ explorer who opened up the Western Pioneer Trails.
What is a mountain man?
100
Pioneers would often trade with these people when they would run low on supplies.
Who are the Native Americans?
200
Where the Oregon Trail began.
What is Missouri?
200
The first name of the wife.
Who is Narcissa Whitman?
200
The way in which families would often have to travel due to overloaded wagons.
What is by foot?
200
What mountain men clothes were made from.
What is raw hide?
200
Most common animal that was trapped by mountain men for their fur.
What are beavers?
300
How long was the Oregon Trail?
What is 2,000 miles?
300
The goal of the Whitmans and other missionaries who moved west.
What was converting Native Americans to Christianity?
300
What many families were forced to do in order to ferry across rivers.
What is dump supplies to make the wagon lighter?
300
This mountain man discovered the South Pass.
Who is Jedediah Smith?
300
Group of settlers who became snowbound on the Oregon Trail and resorted to cannibalism in order to survive.
Who is the Donner Party?
400
An opening in the Rocky Mountains that allowed pioneers to enter into Oregon Country. (Discovered by Jedediah Smith)
What is the South Pass?
400
How long the Whitmans knew each other before getting married.
What is 2 days?
400
Supplies were very scarce. Often times a glass of water would cost this much.
What is $100?
400
Opening in the Rocky Mountains that allowed for pioneers to reach Oregon Country.
What is the South Pass?
400
The 2 reasons why beaver trade died out.
What is over hunting and out of style?
500
The number of people traveled the Oregon Trail between 1840 and 1860.
What is 50,000 people?
500
The name of the mission founded by Narcissa and Marcus Whitman.
What is the Protestant Whitman Mission?
500
The most common ways people would die while traveling along the Oregon Trail.
What is poor sanitation, cholera, and accidental gunshots?
500
System used by mountain men to meet up with traders from the East.
What is the Rendezvous System?
500
The name of the belief that America should expand from coast to coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
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