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