The Oregon Trail
The length of the Oregon Trail.
What is 2,000 miles?
A term for someone who participated in the 1859 Gold Rush.
What is a Forty Niner?
The famous big purchase of land in the 1800s that nearly doubled the size of the country, stretching from New Orleans to Montana.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Something that is gained or added, usually land.
What is an acquisition?
A geographical line between two places.
What is a boundary?
How long it took to go the entire length of the Oregon Trail on average.
What took four to six months?
One of the first people to settle in a territory.
What is a Pioneer?
To add or incorporate new territory into a country.
What is annex?
An American belief in the 1800s that is was the God-given right of Americans to expand Westward.
What is Manifest Destiny?
What is a covered wagon?
How the majority of people died along the Oregon Trail.
What is disease and infection?
To give up territory, usually as the result of a treaty.
What is Ceded?
The animal that was hunted nearly to extinction during the 1800s.
What is the Buffalo?
A term for extending across the continent.
What is Transcontinental?
The President from 1801 to 1809.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The starting point of the Oregon Trail.
What is Independence, Missouri?
A representative sent by a religious organization to persuade people to adopt that religion
What is a missionary?
An area of land set aside by the US government for Native Americans to live on.
What is a reservation?
A large region of land. Usually unincorporated.
What is a territory?
The US President from 1809 to 1817.
Who was James Madison?
What are Ft. Laramie, Independence Rock, Outhouse and Jail Rocks, Chimney Rock, Scott’s Bluff, Register Cliff, and Fort Hall?
Having a set plot of land that you are legally allowed to mine on.
What a claim?
By the end of the 1800s, this is how many states were in the US.
There were 41 states in 1901.
War With Mexico, Extinct Species, Deforestation and Conflict
The US President who added the most land, despite being a one-term president.
Who is James K Polk? 1845–1849