Tools of the Trade
Encounters
Nutrition 101
Health and Wellness
Hodgepodge
100
This is the main mode of transportation on the Oregon Trail
What is a wagon?
100
What type of people did they meet on the trail
Who were the Native Americans
100
What is the most common nutrition on the trail
What is a bushel of dried fruit
100
The number of people that died
What is 65,000
100
How any miles was the Oregon trail
What is 2,000 miles 
200
The name of the wagon that traveled along the Oregon Trail
What is a prairie scooner
200
This animal was vital to the Pioneers as their "beast of burden"
What are oxen
200
Lack of this vitamin was the cause of many diseases associated with the Pioneers
What is vitamin C
200
What were the main sicknesses on the Oregon trail  
What is Cholra, Small Pox, Typhiod, and Dysentery 
200
Who were the first people to use the Oregon trail
Who were the Native Americans 
300
This is what they used to help them start fires to keep warm
What is animal droppings
300
This strange animal lived in burrows and greeted the travelers with a friendly smile.  
What were prairie dogs
300
Due to the lack of food, many pioneers resorted to hunting this animal, a favorite of many Native American tribes
What is the buffalo
300
The place where they put the grave yards 
What is the side of the trail
300
The animal that pulled the wagons
What are oxen
400
What was a tool that the pioneers carried on the trail to help when they got stuck. This tool can be found in almost every garage today
What is a shovel 
400
What time of year did most pioneers start traveling on the Oregon trail 
What is spring
400
The usual cost of food for four people for half a year traveling the Oregon trail was $150. How much would this cost now
What is $3,000
400
This "fever" increased the amount of travelers on the Oregon trail in 1848
What was gold fever due to the California gold rush


400
What evedince of the trail is still visible today
What are wagon wheel ruts
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