Exploration
This US President that bought the Louisiana Territory in 1803.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The people moving west call themselves this.
What are emigrants?
This term was used to describe the large increase in people migrating to the West in the 1840s.
What is Oregon Fever?
Gold was discovered in this year.
What was 1848?
Pioneer Ezra Meeker worked towards making the Oregon Trail this.
What is "a historic landmark"?
This famous expedition was sent to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory in 1804.
What was the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
This woman kept a diary of her journey on the Oregon Trail.
Who was Narcissa Whitman?
Some hardships and dangers faced by emigrants on the Oregon Trail were....
What are Native American attacks, river crossings, unpredictable weather, wagon breakdowns, and disease?
This discovery created a large migration to California.
What is gold?
People started using trains instead of wagons to travel to the West because of this....
What is trains were faster and more efficient transportation?
The fur trappers traveled this way through the Rocky Mountains after finding Lewis and Clark's route impassable.
What was on foot or horseback?
Emigrants like Narcissa Whitman primarily cooked their food on the trail using this.
What is dried buffalo dung?
In 1850,this new attraction drew many towards California instead of Oregon.
What is gold being discovered in California?
This many people were estimated to have traveled the Oregon Trail west by 1850.
Congress declared the Oregon Trail this honor in 1978.
What is a historic trail?
Why did farmers begin moving west in the 1820s?
Land in the East was scarce and rocky, while the Oregon Territory had fertile land.
Upon reaching Oregon in December 1836, Narcissa Whitman felt like this.
What is tired and weary but happy and relieved to have made it?
People eventually stop using the Oregon Trail for transportation because of this...
What is railroads provided faster and more efficient transportation?
What is mining or panning for Gold?
Ezra Meeker said this about friendships on the Oregon Trail.
What are a sweet reward of common struggle and adversity?
The settlers described the landscape and resources of the Oregon Territory in the 1820s as this.
What are lush green fields, abundant game, and beautiful rivers?
The location where the Whitmans settled in the Oregon Territory is described as this.
What is the Eastern part of the state of Washington?
The discovery of gold in California had this effect on the migration of people.
What is many moving towards California for wealth instead of Oregon?
The introduction of railroads in 1869 impacted travel to the West because of this.
What is people started using trains instead of wagons for travel?
People can learn about the history of The Oregon Trail by doing these two things.
What is follow the route of the Oregon Trail and read diaries from the time?