The Journey
The name of roads travel by pioneers when heading west.
What are Trails ?
2 reason people migrated west.
Anwers will vary, land, to make better living, gold, jobs, over crowed cities, farming, ect ect
People who moved west to settle
What are Settlers or Pioneers
Their job included caring, protecting and herding livestock. They are known for also riding horses.
What are Cowboys?
The country who sold the US the Louisianian Purchase
What is France?
2 food people ate on wagon trains
What is cornmeal, rice, bean, bacon, ham, dried fruit, occasionally fresh fish, buffalo, antelope, rabbit hunted along the trail
Answers will vary
The people who did not benefit from the migration west but was more of a detriment.
Who are Native Americans?
Commission by the president to explore lands west of the Mississippi River that comprise the Louisiana Purchase
Who are Lewis and Clark?
People who travel west to find their fortune in gold.
What are 49ers
The number of current US states were acquired in the Louisiana Purchase.
What is 15?
The most famous location were virtually all Wagon Train started and departed from
What is Independence Missouri?
Land was Purchase from France in 1803 which is currently 828,000 square miles of the US today
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
The first name of either leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Who is Meriwether Lewis or William Clark?
These men made a living trapping and selling furs
What are Mountain Man?
Name 2 teams whose name where inspired by the travel west or the west.
Answers will vary
A animal that in the early 1800 cover the county and is now consider near threaten. It was use by the US indigenous people for food clothing and shelter
What is the Great Americn Buffalo(bison)?
The name given to a style of wagon trains because of their resemblance to sailing ships.
What is a Prairie Schooner?
The president who commission the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Who is President Thomas Jefferson?
The leader of a wagon train
What is a Wagon Master
2 of 3 animals use to pull wagon trains.
What are Horses, Oxen and Mules
This trail was dubbed " The Great Migration of 1843" It connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon and was 2170 miles east to west. It spanned part of Kansas and nearly all Nebraska and Wyoming. The western half spanned most of the current states of Idaho and Oregon
What is the Oregon Trail?
Name 3 trails use to travel west.
What are the Oregon, California, Santa Fe Trail, Mormon, Old Spanish, Gila River Trail, and answers will vary
This woman made a major contribution to US trail discovery plotting geographic maps of the but was not name in the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Who is Sacagawea
Why did more people walk west than ride in wagon train?
The suspension made for a notoriously bumpy ride and unsafe condition to ride in wagon unless need to control and or guide your Ox or horse team. Ther was also very little space due to cargo