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US-Trails West Notes
Study Guide for Chapter 11 - Trails West Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who founded a fur-trading outpost at the mouth of the Columbia River? | John Jacob Astor |
| The Second Great Awakening caused which two missionaries to go to Oregon in 1836? | Marcus and Narcissa Whitman |
| What disease caused many Indian children to die, so the Cayuse Indians sought revenge by killing the whites around the Whitman Mission? | Measles |
| If you were starting out on the Oregon Trail, what city would you leave from? | Independence, Missouri |
| If you were starting out on the Oregon Trail, when would you begin the trip? | Late Spring |
| What were the five challenges for travelers on the Oregon Trail? | Shortages of food, water, and supplies; Rough weather; Natural barriers like rivers and mountains; Accidents; Cholera and diseases |
| Where did the Oregon Trail end? | Willamette Valley |
| How did most people travel the 2000 miles of the Oregon Trail? | Walked |
| What split from the Oregon Trail in southern Idaho? | California Trail |
| What was the key to getting to California? | Getting there before the first snow hit the Sierra Nevada mountains |
| What was the name of the group who did not make it over the Sierra Nevada mountains and had to spend the winter in the mountains? | Donner Party |
| The Santa Fe Trail connected what two cities? | Independence, Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Who were the main travelers on the Santa Fe Trail? | Businessmen |
| What did Joseph Smith begin in 1830? | Mormon Church |
| What is another name for the Mormon Church? | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
| What socially unacceptable belief kept the Mormons moving from New York to Ohio to Missouri and to Illinois? | Polygamy |
| Who was murdered in Illinois in 1844? | Joseph Smith |
| Who became the head of the Mormon Church and took his followers to Salt Lake City, Utah? | Brigham Young |
| Who discovered gold in California in 1848? | James Marshall |
| Where was gold discovered in California in 1848? | Sutter's Mill |
| When did more than 100,000 people "rush" to California to find gold? | 1849 |
| Which California city grew from 800 to 25,000 people in two years? | San Francisco |
| What was the name of the preferred method of searching for gold where the gold was washed from loose gravel alongside streams and rivers? | Placer Mining |
| Most people did not make fortunes by finding gold, instead they made a good living by... | supplying the miners |
| Many immigrants from what country came to California between 1849 and 1853? | China |
| What was the end result for California of the population increase by the gold rush? | Statehood |
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