UT Studies: Ch5 section 3

Why did the government send explorers out west?

• To go home

• to map the land in hopes of making it a U.S. territory someday

• to go to california

• To trap beavers and Buffalo.

John C Fremont is known as the man who found a west from the Salt lake Valley to_________

• Nevada

• Mexico

• California

• Oregon Country

True or False: John Wesley powell explored the unmapped parts of the Colorado and Green River.

• True

• False

Oregon Country included, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and

Among the first non white people to settle a territory

• Journeymen

• Travelers

• Pioneers

• Mormons

True or False: An Immigrant is a person who already lives in a country, but visits other places.

• True

• False

One group following behind another on the journey to Utah in Wooden wagons pulled by oxen or mules is called

• Traffic jam

• Oxen pull

• Wagon Train

• Pioneer wagons

The pioneers traveled slowly only moving how many miles per day?

What trail did the Pioneers use by Wagon Train?

• Mexican Trail

• Oregon Trail

• San andreas

• Bikini Bottom

T OR F: The Bidwell Bardelston Party was not the first to prove they could make it to California

• True

• False