This landmark was said to resemble "a haystack with a pole running far above it's top".
What is Chimney Rock?
200
The city that marked the end of the trail.
What is Oregon City, Oregon?
200
The name of the wagon most used by the pioneers.
What is prairie schooner?
200
Some African Americans traveled to these two places when they knew they were excluded from Oregon.
What is Washington and California?
200
This landmark let you now that you were 1/3 of the way to the Oregon Trail.
What is Fort Laramie?
200
The reason that most pioneers believed was the cause of most of the deaths along the trail.
What are the Native Americans?
300
The length of the Oregon Trail.
What is 2,000 miles?
300
The "west"means...
What is the land west of the Mississippi?
300
The definition of black laws.
Laws put in place in Oregon to exclude people of color from living there and owning land.
300
This landmark marked the halfway point of the journey.
What is South Pass?
300
This disease was caused by drinking uncleaned water.
What is Dysentery?
400
The way and reason most people traveled down the trail.
What is Walking, because there was no room in the wagons?
400
He helped to build the community in what is now Centralia Washington.
Who is George Washington?
400
These are two rivers that pioneers crossed.
What are the Big Blue, Sweetwater, or Platte?
500
The definition for Oregon Fever.
What is Spreading the news about free land and opportunity so that people would move to Oregon.
500
These were built to withstand attacks.
What is a fort?
500
Three reasons why Native Americans were angry about pioneers coming down the trail.
What are bringing diseases, treated with little respect, killed off their herds of buffalo and wasted many parts of the animal, and took over the land leaving little space for them.
500
These are five forts found along the Oregon Trail.
What are Fort Laramie, Hall, Boise, Kearney, Vancouver, Bridger, Walla Walla?
500
Most pioneers did this to make the water they were using was clean.