Oregon Trail

How many miles and months did Oregon trail take?

• 1,650 miles long took 6 months to travel.
• 3,000 miles long took 8 months to travel.
• 2,000 miles long took 6 months to travel.
• 4,000 miles long took 5 months to travel.

What were the difficulties of the Oregon Trail?

• Length of the journey
• Disease
• Weather
• All of the above

Where did the travellers of the Oregon Trail originally set out from?

• Nebraska
• Idaho
• Wyoming
• Missouri

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Why would people head West on the Oregon Trail?

• Free pizza at the end of the trip.
• They win a million dollars.
• New land, opportunities & life.
• The Oregon coast was prettier than the East coast.

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What was the most feared disease on the Oregon Trail?

• smallpox
• measles
• plague
• cholera

Who traveled on the Oregon Trail?

• Thousands of pioneers, traders, merchants, farmers, many people went on this trail.  
• People who needed riches. 
• People who did not want to do anything. 

What animals often pulled the wagons?

• horse, mule, oxen
• oxen, mule, dogs
• buffalo, oxen, mule
• oxen, buffalo, horses

People had to cross rivers to get to the Oregon Trail.

• False 
• True 

What happened to most people on their way west?

• People ran out of food and had bad health 
• People were killed by Native Americans 

What does "jumping off point" mean?

• Those are the major cities where people got on the Oregon Trail. 
• To jump off the trail and go on your own path to see if you could get west faster.