U.S. Geography
Mexico
The Mountain Men
The Oregon Trail
Pioneers
100
The region between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains, known for its flat land, and excellent soil for farming is called....
the Great Plains
100
Before it was called Mexico, it was known as...
New Spain
100
This animal made many young men very wealthy in the Rockies...
beaver
100
The Oregon Trail began in....
Independence, MO
100
To safely get through the Rockies, pioneers had to leave for Oregon during which season?
Spring
200
This mountain range is America's largest...
The Rockies
200
A Mexican owner of a ranch was known as a...
ranchero
200
This legendary mountain man nearly was scalped by a grizzly, and helped in discovering the South Pass...
Jedediah Smith
200
This missionary couple was killed by the Cayuse Indians, who blamed them for spreading measles throughout their tribe...
The Whitmans
200
Items the pioneers dumped out of their wagons were given the nickname of...
leeverites
300
Oregon, Idaho and Washington used to be grouped together as one territory named...
Oregon Country
300
Because of the policy of mercantilism, New Spain was only allowed to trade with...
Spain
300
This is the route settlers used to get safely through the Rockies, and was discovered by Jedediah Smith...
South Pass
300
The land the pioneers were settling on was undiscovered territory for the U.S. and correctly known as this vocabulary term...
frontier
300
These were the types of wagons pioneers used to haul their goods to the west on the Oregon Trail...
Conestogas
400
This mountain range in eastern California is where the Donner Party members were stranded for 5+ months...
Sierra Nevadas
400
This man was a 5-time dictator of Mexico...
Santa Anna
400
This man became one of America's first millionaires due to his American Fur Trading Company in Oregon...
John Jacob Astor
400
Settlers who badly wanted to leave the east coast and head to Oregon were said to have this condition...
Oregon Fever
400
Members of the Donner Party had to resort to this in order to survive...
cannibalism
500
This river is the border between Texas and Mexico...
Rio Grande
500
This trail was used as an international trade route between Independence, MO and Santa Fe, NM...
Santa Fe Trail
500
What was the purpose of the Santa Fe Trail?
trade between the U.S. and Mexico
500
This trail broke off of the Oregon Trail and took settlers into California...
California Trail
500
This territory was the first area on American soil to give women the right to vote...
Wyoming
M
e
n
u