Vocabulary 1
Smaller wagon easier for oxen to pull with a cover that looked like a boat sail
Prairie schooner
Grooves worn in the ground from the covered wagons
Ruts
Covered wagons that would travel in one long line for protection
Wagon train
How long would it take to travel 2000 miles of the Oregon Trail?
5 months
What was the biggest danger the pioneers faced on the trail?
Cholera
2000 miles that went from Missouri to Oregon Country through the middle of the US
Oregon Trail
Wide, flat pass through the Rocky Mountains found by John Jacob Astor
South Pass
Plants grown by farmers as food for people and animals
Crops
What did the pioneers travel in?
Prairie schooner
South Pass was an easier way across what?
Rocky Mountains
Religious people sent to a place to spread the idea of Christianity
Missionaries
Animals raised by farmers for food or other resource like wool
Livestock
People who are first to explore or settle in a new area
Pioneers
What necessities do you think were packed in the wagon?
Dried meat (food), coffee, water, axe, rifle
How did the pioneers know where to go?
Follow the ruts
Land given to a person by the government to live on and farm
Homestead
A bacteria that killed many pioneers and was spread through dirty water
Cholera
Things like food, water, and clothes needed to stay alive
Necessities
How would they arrange the wagons while traveling?
Wagon train
How did children often travel on the trail?
Walk