Chapter 13, Lesson 1, Part 2 Quiz

Dr Marcus and Narciss Whitman were...

• Farmers who lived in Nebraska who started living with Native Americans

• Missionaries who went to Oregon to convert Native Americans to Christianity

• British citizens who moved to Oregon to build ties with Native Americans

• School teachers who traveled the Oregon Trail in search of riches

Why were the wagons that traveled on the Oregon Trail called Prairie Schooners?

• Schooners were warriors from the local Native American tribes.

• The wagons resembled huge kites in the distant horizon.

• The wagons resembled large buffalo and buffalo were also known as schooners.

• Schooners were boats and these wagons looked like boats in the distance.

The Whitman massacre scared people and as a result people stopped traveling out West on the Oregon Trail

• True

• False

Why did so many people pack up there things and travel the Oregon Trail to move out West?

• There as a terrible disease that was killing American in the East

• Most American were rich so they could afford to leave the East and start new

• They were driven by reports of fertile Oregon land and were also undergoing economic hard times.

• The East was becoming too populated and they needed more space to be free.

A person who leaves his or her country to live somewhere else is known as a/an...

• Emigrant

• Patriot

• Illegal Alien

• Prairie Schooner