Important Facts
Settlers used land in what is current day…
What is North America/Pacific Northwest/Washington or Oregon Country.
Name at least two ways you could cross the rivers.
What is 1.walk across, 2. float across 3. take a ferry
Where did most people start the Oregon trail.
What is Independence, Missouri.
The most common dangers along the trail (name 2).
What is Diseases/cholera, wild animals, wagon accidents, lack of food, bad water!
Name 2 occupations in the west that settlers and immigrants had.
What are farmers, fishermen, cowboys, miners, railroad workers, loggers, cooks or other reasonable professions of the time.
Name at least three essentials that the settlers would take with them.
Possible answers include:
What are: animals, food&water, some clothing, some wagon tools, some weapons&ammunition, items to trade, some money.
Two reasons why the people would head west or migrate during the 1850s.
What is "wide open and free land", gold in the west, jobs and the promise of food, forcible removal, free to start over.
Where did the Oregon trail end for most people(location)
What is Oregon city or Oregon Country/Territory
The most common type of wagon used to travel West.
What is a covered wagon.
The law that helped clear the land for settlers.
What is the Indian Removal Act.
What is hunting, trading or buying food.
The Year of the Gold Rush
What 1849.
The rock formation travelers would try to reach by July 4th.
What is Independence Rock.
Name three common chores of children along the trail.
What are cleaning, doing laundry, fetching water, cooking, hunting, tending the fire (buffalo chips or kindling).
Aside from fire, these were used to create light.
What are candles?
The Indian Removal act moved natives off their land to smaller sections of Indian Territory, called:
What is a reservation?
The rock formation was a landmark along the trail. It was only missing smoke from the top!
What is Chimney Rock.
The forcible removal of Native people was called:
What is the Trail of Tears?
Give at least 2 reasons why people travelled in groups or caravans.
What is it would have been safer together and they would have been able to share supplies. Other examples: Following friends or neighbors, hired the same travel guide
These workers for hire used pack animals to move along the trail (people and goods).
What is Cowboy and/or Mule Train driver
One of the main rivers that led to Washington, AND still exists today.
What is the Columbia River.
Name at least two real dangers along the trail and in the west that people faced.
What are: wagon accidents, bad water, lack of gun safety, no/limited medical care and knowledge, run in with bandits or thieves.