Trails
Oregon was previously referred to as?
Oregon Country
Women advocated for the journey to the west more than men did. True or False
False, men dragged their wives and children on the trail with them
What was Joseph Smith the founder of?
Mormon community
Who took over the Mormon community after the death of its first leader?
Brigham Young
Who were experts on the trails?
The Indians
What trails did some of the people on the Oregon trail diverge to in order to trade?
California Trail
Santa Fe Trail
Women did not have the same duties on the trail that they had at home like cooking and nurturing children because men assisted in that on the trail. True or False
False, women had the same duties and men hunted and tended to the animals
Where did the Mormon community begin?
Upstate New York
After the Mormons got kicked out of Nauvoo, Illinois they move where?
Salt Lake City, Utah
Who do the guides work with? These people offer you things that you have to pay for.
Merchants
Name 2 things that made the journey difficult.
Treacherous rivers to cross
rattle snakes and scorpions in S.west and deserts
Spread of epidemics, measles, flu
mental and physical exhaustion
Accidents: children disappearing
Most people rode on the Wagon Trains because the journey was so long. True or False
False, they walked most of the way
Where was the first Mormon temple?
Nauvoo, Illinois
The Mormons make their journey based on what?
Faith
Which group of Indians would trade a fresh horse for a tired horse with the people on the trail?
Plains Indians
Indians attacked the migrants rather than helped them. True or False
False, they would rather help them so they could move along and leave
Trail life was twice as hard on men than it was on women because they had double sometimes triple the work. True or False
False, this applies to women not men
What made the Mormons unique in the eyes of others?
The practiced polygyny; a man having more than one wife
The majority of the Mormons who traveled through the states successfully found economic opportunities. True or False
True
It was better to be at the back of the group because the troublemakers were placed in the front.
True or False
False, it was better to be in the front; troublemakers in the back
Migrants demanded forts along which trail that had doctors, supplies, and guides?
Oregon trail
People added to their families by allowing someone to join them as a servant. True or False
True, they indentured themselves
As Smith moved the Mormon community through different states (New York; Kirtland, Ohio; Nauvoo, Illinois), they were in search of what?
(The Mormons migrated in the order listed above).
The New Jerusalem
What was the goal of the first and the second leader of the Mormon community as they migrated and were kicked out of different states?
They wanted to take all the land and create their own theocratic state.
Theocracy means a government led by priests or religious leaders
How did Joseph Smith die?
He was murdered