Oregon Trail
How many months did the journey take?
6 months
Salt Lake City, Utah
Place where mormons settled.
What was the name of the railroad that allowed people to travel across country for the first time?
Transcontinental Railroad
Thomas Jefferson
3rd President, purchased the Louisiana Purchase
Name three supplies from the supply list.
Spinning wheel, bedding, hunting knife, pick axe, flour, sugar, salt, etc.
How many miles was the trip?
2,000 miles
Where Texas gained freedom over Mexico
What did the Homestead Act provide for people who were moving out west?
160 acres and a home
Sacagawea
What was the name of the location where the settlers started from on the trail?
Fort Independence
What were the two animals that pulled the wagon trains?
Oxen and Mules
Louisiana Territory
Included 15 new states that doubled the size of the United States.
Who was the Donner Party?
Group of people who had gotten stuck during winter and had to resort to cannibalism.
Sitting Bull
Led his people during years of resistance against the United States.
Expansion from sea to sea
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Mountain range where many families got trapped during the winter.
What was another name for the pioneers traveling west?
The Great Migration
Sam Houston
Led Texas army to victory at the battle of San Jacinto.
What was the first and last names of the two people who led the expedition out west.
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
Name two other diseases contracted on the trail other than cholera.
Battle at Wounded Knee
Domestic massacre of 300 Lakota people
What is a prairie schooner?
A covered wagon
Crazy Horse
Lakota War leader
Name three presidents from 1841-1869.
John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson