Wildcard
How old you had to be to claim land in Oregon Territory
What is 21 years old?
What is Independence
The amount of weight that a wagon could carry.
What is 2000-2300 lbs?
This book was considered a crucial item to pack.
Bible
A dangerous creature found along the trail whose venom is fatal.
What is a rattlesnake?
Cost of the average wagon
What is $100-$150
It was considered good luck to have reached this landmark in by July 4th.
What is Independence Rock?
Most wagons were pulled by these.
What is oxen?
This food dried meat out and preserved it for weeks at a time.
What is salt?
Packed in large barrels, pioneers hoped they could replenish this along the way.
What is water?
Length of the Oregon Trail
What is 2000 miles? (2170)
The Oregon Trail passed through six states including Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Oregon, and this State.
What is Idaho?
The nickname of a line of covered wagons.
Wagon Train
Animal often found traveling in the wagon with families
What is a cat?
What is Infectious Disease such as Cholera, Dysentery, Typhoid Fever, Measles, Mountain Fever, Smallpox, and Influenza?
What they burned to make fires when wood wasn't available.
What are buffalo chips?
Placed on Forts to reassure pioneers that they were still under U.S. protection even way out in the wilderness
What is an American Flag?
One of out how many people died on the Oregon Trail?
10
Amount of food an average family needed to survive the trail
What is over 1000 pounds?
Drowning was common on these despite efforts to build bridges and ferries later on.
What are River Crossings?
Sealing the seams of the wooden wagon box with tar or pitch to make it watertight
What is caulking?
Kearny, Laramie, Hall, Boise
Famous Forts along the trail
The dimensions of a regular wooden box of a wagon bed was
What is four feet wide by 10 feet long (4X10)?
This beverage was so valuable that some pioneers traded it for wagon repairs and extra oxen
What is coffee?
The Homestead Act granted this many acres per adult.
What is 160 acres? (If you are within 30 acres, you get the points)