Name the capital
Colorado's capital city
What is Denver
Sacramento
What is California
Pioneers traveled by wagon out west. How did they travel (get there)?
What is by wagon or wagon train
Utah's capital city
What is Salt Lake City
Denver
What is Colorado
Wyoming's capital city
What is Cheyenne
Salem
What is Oregon
Name 2 reasons pioneers move out west? (there's quite a few answers to this, make sure you know at least 2)
What is:
-wealth, gold, mining, cattle
-for work
- fertile land for farming
-Opportunity to own land
Washington's capital city
What is Olympia
Helena
What is Montana
Montana's capital city
What is Helena
Honolulu
What is Hawaii
It was important to only bring the essentials with you on your journey out west. Name 3 items that were "essential" to bring? HINT: Not your grandfather clock!)
What is:
- sacks of beans, flour, sugar
- clothing, bedding
- tents, tools, guns, cooking equipment
- medicine, candles, soap
California's capital city
What is Sacramento
Olympia
What is Washington
Idaho's capital city
What is Boise
Cheyenne
What is Wyoming
Name 3 dangers and/or hardships people faced traveling on the Oregon Trail
What is:
-weather, mountains, rivers
-lack of food and water
-disease (cholera, scurvy)
-Indian attacks, animals/insects
Alaska's capital city
What is Juneau
Boise
What is Idaho
Oregon's capital city
What is Salem
Carson City
What is Nevada
The act in which the US government promised hundreds of acres of free land to any family who could make it across the country to Oregon
What is The Homestead Act
Nevada's capital city
What is Carson City
Juneau
What is Alaska