Food and Supplies
Name some foods pioneers would eat on the trail
What is wild game, fish, berries, nuts, grains?
This place is the beginning of the Oregon Trail.
Where is Independence, Missouri?
Roughly how many people died on the Oregon Trail?
What is 20,000 people?
The first group of people to move into a new land and settle there were called
What are pioneers?
Name two reasons the Pioneers traveled to the Oregon Trail.
What are land for crops, gold, hunting, trade, or a new scenery?
Name three essentials that pioneers would take with them.
What are animals, weapons and ammunition, tools, food, cooking supplies, utensils, clothing, or bedding/blankets?
This place is the end of the Oregon Trail.
Where is Oregon City, Oregon?
If one of these died, it could set the settlers back a ways.
What are oxen, horses, or mules?
The famous hero of the battle of the Alamo.
Who is Davey Crockett?
Name some common chores pioneer children had
What are milking the cows, doing laundry, fetching water, helping the parents cook, or doing dishes?
What type of animal would typically pull the wagons?
What are oxen (or, less commonly, horses or mules)?
This ocean is the closest to the end of the Oregon Trail
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Name two ways the Pioneers could cross a river.
What are swim, take a ferry (if available), caulk their wagons, ford the river, or use a bridge (if available)?
Define wagon train.
What is a group of covered wagons traveling together across the country?
Name two types of wagons on the Oregon Trail.
What are Conestoga and Prairie Schooner?
This is a very big animal with lots of meat on it. The pioneers learned from the Indians how to dry the meat and keep it for a long time.
What are buffalo?
This is the state in which the Battle of the Alamo took place.
What is Texas?
Name the common disease that killed many settlers.
What is cholera?
These animals could pull the covered wagons, live off prairie grasses, but couldn't travel as far as oxen.
What is a mule?
The average weight limit that the typical wagon will hold
What is 2,000 lbs?
These animals which pulled wagons were fast, expensive, often stolen, and could not live off prairie grasses along the way.
What are horses?
In a successful six days, the typical wagon train would go ___miles.
a. 60
b. 2
c. 1,000
d. 10
What is a, 60 miles?
What group of people were most negatively affected by the pioneers traveling on the Oregon Trail?
What are Native Americans?
The person who was hired to go along with the group, who had been west many times before, and was knowledgeable about the trail.
What is a trail guide?
The term for the belief that the United States had the right to settle the entire western North America.
What is Manifest Destiny?