Lesson 2.3B Lesson Review

Lesson 2.3B Lesson Review

Missionaries in Oregon Country

Why Missionaries Went to Oregon Country

• Wanting to save people who did not know Jesus

• Natives returning with Lewis and Clark asked for 'Black Robes'

Multiple Choice

True or False --

"Christian Missionaries went to the Oregon Country to teach people about Jesus and to save them."

• True

• False

Methodist Missionaries

• Lee Family first to go

• Started a Manual Labor Training School

• Focused more on the political aspect of frontier life.....

• Not as much of the religious aspect

Multiple Choice

The Lee's were Methodist missionaries who.....

• were very focused on teaching Natives about Jesus

• did not care about the boundary between America and Britain

• started a manual labor training school for natives

Presbyterian Missionaries

• Whitmans and Spaldings first to travel the Oregon Trail

• Goals to.......

  • translate Bible into Cayuse and Nez Perce languages

  • teach Christianity

  • teach American way of life

Multiple Select

Which of the following statements show the goals of the Presbyterian Missionaries?

• Teach about Christianity

• Translate the Bible into native languages

• teach American way of life

• help with the boundary problem between the Americans and British

Whitman Massacre

• Causes of Massacre......

  • Settlers, sick/healthy, coming to Whitman Mission

  • Cayuse dieing (blamed Whitmans)

  • Differing cultures

• Effects of Massacre....

  • 13 died (include adult/kids)....began Indian Wars

    
    

Multiple Choice

One cause of the Whitman Massacre was......

• cultures that were too similar

• Cayuse blaming the Whitmas for their sickness

• becoming friends with the settlers

Catholic Missionaries

• Peter John de Smet went to Oregon Country Natives

• Allowed natives to 'mix' their beliefs with Catholicism

Multiple Choice

The Catholic Missionaries were more successful because....

• they allowed the natives to mix some of their beliefs

• they helped the natives fight their enemies

• they opened manual labor training schools