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History Oregon Trail
Oregon Trail
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1836 | The year trail opened |
| Willamette | The fertile valley in Oregon |
| Caulk and Float | What one would do at a river that was 4 feet |
| Double team their oxen | What one would do on a steep ascent |
| Cholera | The most dreaded disease on the trail |
| 300,000 | How many people traveled the Oregon Trail |
| drowning | The most common fatal accident |
| Chains and Ropes | What one would do at steep descent |
| 1000 lbs | The average weight of a wagon |
| 15 miles a day | steady pace |
| 10,000 | Number of people who died on the trail |
| Scotts bluff | Another name for Robidoux Pass |
| Buffalo chips | used for fire on prairie |
| Ford | What one would do at a river 2 feet deep |
| Whitman | Missionaries killed by Indians |
| May | Month you wanted to leave |
| blackberries | safe |
| elderberries | safe |
| rasberries | safe |
| chokecherries | safe |
| sumac | safe |
| prickly pear | safe |
| wild onion | safe |
| loco weed | poisonous |
| Prairie rose | safe |
| dandelion | safe |
| Poppy Mallow | safe |
| Night Shade | Poisonous |
| Buttercup | Poisonous |
| Water Hemlock | Poisonous |
| Parsnips | safe |
| ecinasia | safe |
| Sassafrass | safe |
| Willow Tree | safe |
| Peppermint | safe |
| Blue Pine | Poisonous |
| Prime rose | Poisonous |
| Poison Ivy | Poisonous |
| Purple Cone Flower | Poisonous |
| Black mustard | safe |
| Six top causes of death in order | 1. diseases, 2. accidents, 3. Indians,4. starvation and thirst, 5.Weather, 6. wild animals |
| Independence, Missouri | Jumping off place |
| Fort Kearney | Send first letters home |
| Fort Laramie | Did laundry, Met Lakota |
| Chimney rock | Most spectacular sight on trail |
| Fort bridger | Mountain men |
| Kansas River | took the ferry |
| South Platte | too thin to plow to thick to drink |
| South Pass | gentle pass through the rocky mountains |
| Ice Spring Slough | possibility of cool, refreshing drink |
| Soda Springs | alkali poison |
| Alcove Springs | waterfall and stopping place at beginning of trail |
| Windlass Hill | Steep decent |
| Coast of Nebraska | fields of flowers and grass |
| The Narrows | first single file |
| Parting of the Ways | Sublette's Cutoff (thirst) |
| Ash Hollow | Cholera |
| Independence Rock | Wanted to reach by July 4th |
| Register Cliff | Signed name in rock |
| North Platte | Caulk and float |
| Ayers Natural Bridge | rock formation growing over creek |
| The Dalles | Rough water |
| Mt. Hood | Barlow's Toll Road |
| Oregon | Willamette Valley |
| Witman's Mission | measles |
| Snake Bite | tourniquet |
| frost bite | warm gradually |
| head ache | white willow bark |
| sprain | Epsom salts |
| sore throat | elderberry |
| alkali sickness | lard/flour and water |
| gangrene | amputate |
| scurvy | fruits, pickles |
| malaria | quinine |
| poisoning | ipecac |
| upset stomach | peppermint/ginger |
| LIst six states they would pass through on trail | Missouri, kansas, nebraska, wyoming , Idaho, Oregon |
| Alkali sickness | too much bitter water |
| lock jaw | tetanus, rusty nail |
| rabies | animal bite |
| Rocky mountain spotted fever | tick bite |
| Scurvy | lack of vitamin C |
| dysentery | intestinal infection (diarrhea) |
| cholera | deadly intestinal infection |
| typhoid | unclean water and food (nose bleed/ fever |
| small pox | viral infection, skin lesions |
| List Six rivers they would cross | Kansas, Big Blue, North and South Platte, Snake, Sweet water, Columbia |
| Discuss what happened at Whitman's mission | Methodist mission for Indians/ got measles/ Indians died/ people massacred by indians because of death of Chiefs son (died from measles brought in by white ppl) |
| Discuss a typical day on the trail | Wake up at 4am/gather animals/eat breakfast at 6am/ Johnny cakes and bacon 4 breakfast/ leave at 7 am/ they liked the front of the line because of dust/ lunch at 12 pm/ dinner at 6:30 pm/ gather buffalo chips 4 fire/walking most of the way/ cont. below |
| Cont. discuss a typical day on the trail | try to entertain yourself at night/ in bed by 9pm/ circle wagons to keep animals in/ assign night watch |
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