Oregon Trail: Wildcard
Length of the Oregon Trail (Distance)
What is 2000 miles? (2170)
Primary starting point of the Oregon Trail
What is Independence, Missouri?
Length of Time for the Average family to complete the journey
What is 4-6 months?
This food dried meat out and preserved it for weeks at a time.
What is salt?
A dangerous creature found along the trail whose venom is fatal.
What is a rattlesnake?
Cost of the average wagon
What is $100-$150
The Oregon Trail passed through six states including Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Oregon, and this State.
What is Idaho?
Most wagons were pulled by these.
What is oxen?
Amount of food an average family needed to survive the trail
What is over 1000 pounds?
Packed in large barrels, pioneers hoped they could replenish this along the way.
What is water?
What they burned to make fires when wood wasn't available.
What are buffalo chips?
This City served as the traditional final destination for most pioneers traveling the Oregon Trail in the 1840s
What is Oregon City?
The nickname of a line of covered wagons.
Wagon Train
Animal often found traveling in the wagon with families
What is a cat?
What is Infectious Disease such as Cholera, Dysentery, Typhoid Fever, Measles, Mountain Fever, Smallpox, and Influenza?
Sealing the seams of the wooden wagon box with tar or pitch to make it watertight
What is caulking?
It was considered good luck to have reached this landmark in by July 4th.
What is Independence Rock?
Most families began the journey at some point during these two months
What is April or May?
The amount of weight that a wagon could carry.
What is 2000-2300 lbs?
Drowning was common on these despite efforts to build bridges and ferries later on.
What are River Crossings?
How old you had to be to claim land in Oregon Territory
What is 21 years old?
Placed on Forts to reassure pioneers that they were still under U.S. protection even way out in the wilderness
What is an American Flag?
The dimensions of a regular wooden box of a wagon bed was
What is four feet wide by 10 feet long (4X10)?...4x12 will also be counted as correct
This book was considered a crucial item to pack.
Bible
One of out how many people died on the Oregon Trail?
10
The Homestead Act granted this many acres per adult.
What is 160 acres? (If you are within 30 acres, you get the points)
Kearny, Laramie, Hall, Boise
Famous Forts along the trail
Most people traveled the Oregon Trail by this form of Transporation
What is Walking?
This beverage was so valuable that some pioneers traded it for wagon repairs and extra oxen
What is coffee?
Reason why the Platte River was one of the most difficult water crossings despite the water being shallow
What is Quicksand? (It swallowed wagons)