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Sarah Plain and Tall
Landmarks
Famous Pioneers
Vocabulary Words
Facts
100
Pa, Sarah, Anna, and Caleb
Who are the four main characters?
100
our jumping off city
What is Independence, Missouri?
100
He discovered __________ Springs.
Who is John Fremont?
100
Pioneers stored all their belongings in this for the trip; another name for a covered wagon
What is a prairie schooner?
100
used for making campfires (not firewood)
What are buffalo chips?
200
the prairie
What is the setting?
200
We staked our land.
What is the Willamette Valley?
200
mountain man, explorer, adventurer, builder of a fort
Who is Jim Bridger?
200
Cholera
What is the disease that killed more emigrants than anything else?
200
horses, mules, or oxen
What are animals that pulled the wagons?
300
Sarah will stay with Anna, Caleb, and Pa
What happens at the end of the story?
300
the pass through the Rocky Mountains and across the Continental Divide
What is South Pass?
300
frontiersman, an American legend, and a true folk hero who wore a coonskin cap
Who is Daniel Boone?
300
for example: Chimney Rock, Independence Rock - used to help settlers find their way
What is a landmark?
300
2,000 miles
What is the distance of the Oregon Trail?
400
prairie fires, squalls, wild animals
What are some dangers on the prairie?
400
Register Rock, Chimney Rock, Courthouse Rock
What are the places where you can write messages for those who follow?
400
American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter
Who is Annie Oakley?
400
a journal with daily entries
What is a diary?
400
Between the 1840's and the 1860's
What are the booming decades of the Oregon Trail?
500
blue, grey, and green colored pencils
What are the colors of the sea?
500
Barlow Toll Road, Columbia Gorge, Whitman's Mission
What are the choices for the final decision on the trail?
500
American missionary who started Whitman's Mission
Who is Narcissa Whitman?
500
emigrant vs immigrant
What is traveler from part of a country to another vs a traveler from one country to another country?
500
strength, courage, perseverance, bravery, sense of adventure
What are characteristics of a pioneer?