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WHAT
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OTHER FACTS
100
How many miles long the trail was
What is 2,000?
100
What you call a group of wagons heading West
What is a wagon train?
100
When people should leave to head west (season)
What is spring?
100
Where people got supplies along the way
What is forts or wagon carts?
100
Something awful along the Oregon Trail
What is "an elephant"?
200
How many months, on average, the trip took
What is 4-6 months?
200
What they called the cities where people got on the Oregon Trail
What is a "jumping off point"?
200
When the first travelers began on the Oregon Trail
What is 1843?
200
Where the families settled in Oregon
What is on land that they could farm?
200
An old mountain man who could find the trail, select good spots to camp each evening, and give advice to the travelers on the wagon train
What is a scout or a guide?
300
How many people died along the trail
What is 2,000 people?
300
What type of wagons people used to head West (hint: not conestogas)
What is a "prairie schooner"?
300
When the travelers tried to avoid the mountain region (season)
What is winter?
300
Where the trail began
What is Independence, Missouri?
300
People who turn around to go home rather than continuing on the Oregon Trail
What is a "go-back"?
400
How much money it took to go West
What is $1,000?
400
What people called the region made up of what is now Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana
What is Oregon Country?
400
When travelers got a chance to eat
What is breakfast and dinner?
400
Where the trail ended
What is Oregon City, Oregon?
400
The Oregon Trail was used most often. Name the trail that was the second most used trail.
What is the California Trail?
500
How many travelers followed the Oregon Trail
What is 200,000?
500
What type of illnesses people got on the Oregon Trail (name two!)
What is cholera, flu, measles, smallpox, typhoid, or mountain fever?
500
When the Oregon Trail stopped being used regularly
What is 1870s?
500
Where the travelers had the most difficulty on the journey
What is the desert or mountain?
500
Amount of pounds a typical wagon could carry
What is 1,600-2,500?