Check Up: pg 150+157

1.There needed to be a wagon trail for the families to travel on. Jedediah Smith
2. His Bible and his rifle.
3. Because Smith and his men had crossed over mountains that were supposed to keep Americans out.
4. William Becknell



1. The Book of Heaven
2. Fort Vancouver. England
3. White-headed eagle. Father of Oregon
4. A train of 120 wagons with 1,000 pioneers, who were migrating to Oregon.
5. Because half of their tribe had died of a measles epidemic, because they had no natural immunity to it, and the Whitman children didn't die, so they killed them.
6. Because a series of epidemics struck, and people were looking for better health.
7. Prairie Schooners.
8. They were brought to America from Spain
9. Tobacco
10. Independence, Missouri

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Page 250

Question One: What was needed before families could move farther west? Who solved this problem?
Answer One: They needed wagon routes. Jedidiah Smith

Question Two: What were Jedidiah Smith's two best friends?
Answer Two: His Bible and His rifle

Question Three: Why did the governor of California order Smith to leave California?
Answer Three: He was concerned with Smith.

Question Four: Who was known as the "Father of the Santa Fe Trail"?
Answer Four: William Becknell

Page 257

Question One: What were the four Indians going to St.Louis in serach of?
Answer One: The Book From Heaven

Question Two: What was the only sizable settlement in the Oregon Country? What country controlled it?
Answer Two: Fort Vancouver. Britain

Question Three: What did the Indians call John McLoughlin? How is he remembered today?
Answer Three:White-Headed Eagle. Father of Oregon.

Question Four: What was the "Great Migration" of 1843?
Answer Four: When 120 wagons with 1,000 pioneers were led by Marcus Whitman safely into Oregon.

Question Five: Why did the renegade Cayuse attack the mission and murder the the Whitmans?
Answer Five: They thought that Whitman was saving the white children and allowing the Indians to die from he measles.

Question Six: Why did people leave the Mississippi Valley in the 1830s and 1840s to move the Northwest?
Answer Six: They were searching for better health.

Question Seven: What was the amin mode of transportation to the West?
Answer Seven: wagons

Question Eight: Hod did horses originally get to America?
Answer Eight: They were brought by the Spanish in the 1500s.

Question Nine: What did the Indians demand from the settlers in order to give them safe passage?
Answer Nine: Tobacco

Question Ten: Where did the wagon trains usually begin?
Answer Ten: Independence, Missouri