Route 66
Dust Bowl
Railroad
Oregon Trail
Oregon Trail Game
100
This kids' movie features Route 66.
Cars
100
This type of weather was missing enough to cause the dust bowl.
Rain
100
This type of spike was last drilled to complete the railroad.
Gold spike
100
People kept these things to record their journey.
diaries/journals
100
Name one type of profession you could be when you moved out west
Banker, Carpenter, Farmer
200
Before Route 66, we did not have these two things.
Maps and roads
200
This was the color of the sky during the Dust Bowl
Black
200
Name two things trains carried.
farm goods or people or supplies
200
Name one reason why people moved out west.
gold, farming, opportunity, refugees
200
Name a way to get over the river on the Oregon Trail.
ford, ferry, float/caulk the wagon
300
Before cars, there were these.
Horseless carriages (stagecoaches)
300
Woodie Guthrie wrote THIS to tell about the Dust Bowl.
Dust Bowl Refugees song
300
Name two reasons trains were an improved type of transportation
faster and cheaper
300
She famously wrote a diary about her journey to Oregon
Narcissa Wittman
300
Name three things you can buy at the store.
oxen, food, clothing, ammunition, spare parts
400
Name three things you see on Route 66
Teepees, whale, motels, diners, gas stations
400
This was the name of the worst day of the dust bowl.
Black Sunday
400
Name one difficulty of building the railroad.
Blasting dynamite through mountains, land was rocky, Native Americans, Buffalos
400
Whitman's husband was blamed for _______ because he was a _________.
measles; doctor
400
Name three animals you can hunt for in the game
Squirrels/fox, rabbits, deer, oxen
500
Route 66 stretched from these two cities/states.
Chicago/Los Angeles (or Illinois/California)
500
Guthrie did not like working here.
The farm/orchard
500
Name of the President and the act (law) that was passed to start the railroad.
Abraham Lincoln and The Pacific Railroad Act
500
How did people have enough money to move out west?
They sold their farms/houses
500
Name one place on the trail.
