Oregon Country
Mountain Men
On the Oregon Trail
Oregon Country is Divided
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What country was the US competing with for Oregon?
Great Britain
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What did the mountain men trade furs for?
coffee, sugar, gunpowder, bullets, whiskey, and blankets
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What season did travelers start in?
Spring
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How much of the Oregon Country did Americans want?
All of it
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What time period was this around?
The 1800s
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When did travelers begin heading for Oregon?
the 1830's
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What time did travelers start their day?
4:00 am
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What was the American's motto?
Fifty-four forty or fight
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Where is Cape Horn located?
At the southernmost tip of South America
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What encouraged people to settle in Oregon?
reports about beauty, mild climate, and farmland
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Why did wagon trains always have to keep moving?
They had to make it over the mountains before winter.
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What did the British insist?
Oregon country was theirs
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What did the settlers want?
Sea otter and beaver furs
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Who found the Beckwourth Pass?
Jim Beckwourth
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Who got to ride in the covered wagons?
mothers, small children, and the sick or injured
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When did they compromise?
1846
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What dangers did merchants face?
The storms and rough water of Cape Horn
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Who founded Fort Bridger?
Jim Bridger
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Which rivers did the Oregon trail follow on the way down the Rockey Mountains?
the Snake River and the Colombia River
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What present day states did America get.
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Montana.
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