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Fording The River
Am I dying?
Just Another Day
Those are just the facts
Mapping it out
100

The best type of water to cross in was

shallow, slow moving

100

If you broke your leg on the oregon trail, you would use two of these to create a splint

sticks or wood

100

A typical day started _______ _______

Before dawn

100

This is the name of the Trail taken to the north west of what is now known as The United States

The Oregon Trail

100

If you were wanted to take off of the Oregon Trail, you might start from THIS location

Independence, Missouri

200

If things were too heavy to cross shallow water, the pioneers would have to...

remove or get rid of the items

200

Old meat might make you sick from this

Food poisoning

200

A typical breakfast on the trail consisted of...

Coffee, bacon and dry bread

200

You have to travel this distance in order to go from the starting point to the ending point on the trail

2,170 miles

200
This is the geographical feature which makes everything to its left "West"

The Mississippi River

300

Wagons would have to be careful of these areas of undertow called

Chutes

300

If you found mold in your flour youd have to either toss it or ______ ____

sift it

300

If you wanted to be timely, you would make sure to be on the road by this time in the morning

7 o'clock

300

This is the name of the people who made the journey west

Pioneers

300

These geographical features were difficult to cross on wagon and made travel difficult

The Rocky Mountains

400

If the water was shallow, but the wagons too heavy and the water too fast, you could ask you neighbor to do what?

Double-up teams of oxen for each wagon

400
The most deadly disease on the trail was...

Dysentery

400

On an average day, a wagon would travel this many miles

15 miles

400

There was no _______ ________ to follow on the journey west.

One Path

400

This Valley was a common destination

The Willamette Valley

500

If need be, you could float your wagon on a quickly made raft also known as a

Scow

500

In order to keep food fresh, pioneers often used this common laundry detergent, still used today. You can also use it to make slime

Borax

500

At the end of the day, when the women cooked a hot meal, what would the men be doing?

securing the animals and making repairs

500

Traveling the trails west was all a part of westward _________________.

Expansion

500

This military location was considered the half way point on the trail

Fort Hall