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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

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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