Mountain Men &
American Fur Trade
Oregon Trail
Santa Fe Trail
Mormons
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John Jacob Astor.
Who created the American Fur Company?
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2,000 miles long.
How long is the Oregon Trail?
100
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
What is the destination of the Santa Fe Trail?
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Members of Joseph Smith's church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
What are Mormons?
100
The French, British and American companies kept killing beavers for their water repellant fur to make hats, thus the beaver population decreasing.
What caused the beaver population to decrease?
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The meeting of mountain men and trappers selling their furs to fur company agents once a year.
What is the rendezvous?
200
It cost $600.
How much did it cost a family of four to go on the Oregon Trail?
200
The trail goes through blazing deserts and rough mountains, which is dangerous for a pioneer.
Why was the Santa Fe Trail dangerous?
200
Translated set of golden tablet containing religious teachings.
What is the Book of Mormon?
200
The name is Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
What is the name of the Mormon Church?
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He was the man who thought of the idea of rendezvous and the man who thought of the practice to make fur trade more profitable.
Who was William Ashley?
300
They traveled by wagons.
How did pioneers travel on the Oregon Trail?
300
It is 1,200 miles long.
How long is the Santa Fe Trail?
300
He was the man who took over the Mormon church after Smith was murdered.
Who is Brigham Young?
300
They made a treaty with Spain and Russia.
What countries did the US make a treaty with to take control over the Oregon Trail?
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The rendezvous was once a year, thus it was important to bring a lot of ____.
Why was it important that trappers and mountain men bought a lot of furs to the rendezvous?
400
It is the other trail that could have been taken at the fork instead of going to Williamette Valley in Oregon.
What is the California Trail?
400
He got a 2,000% profit on his cargo.
How much did a man increase his cargo by going on the Santa Fe Trail?
400
Smith had 3 Mormon communities fail in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois.
How many Mormon communities did Smith set up and did they fail?
400
Fashions changed in the 1840s, thus the demand cooled down.
Why did the demand for beaver furs decrease in the 1840s?
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The post was at Astoria, at the mouth of the Columbia River.
What was the trading post John Jacob Astor found in 1811?
500
Geographical barriers blocked the way.
Name the reason that made pioneers abandon their wagons.
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Indians used this ancient route before pioneers did.
Who used this route of the Santa Fe Trail before pioneers did?
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The Mormons practiced polygamy in the 1850s.
What did Mormons practice in the 1850s?
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Settlers replaced them in the 1840s, by moving to west.
What replaced mountain men by the 1840s?
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