The Mormons & Missionaries

The Mormons & Missionaries

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What were the motives, hardships, and legacies of the groups that moved west in the 1800s?

Multiple Choice

The Cayuse Indians tell the Whitmans to leave because...

• the Cayuse are planning to go to war

• the Whitmans are no longer working as a mission

• the Whitmans are planning to move to Oregon City

• too many Americans are coming

Multiple Choice

Marcus Whitman over time came to believe that his purpose as a misisonary was....

• to create peace between immigrants and the Cayuse Indians

• to help the immigrants claim the Oregon Territory as their own.

• to lead the Cayuse to faith in God

• to start a school for the Cayuse Indians

Multiple Choice

Ultimately, which of the following did the Cayuse Indians NOT believe about Marcus Whitman?

• believed that Marcus Whitman's main goal was to help immigrants settle their land

• believed Marcus Whitman was poisoning their people

• believed Marcus Whitman wanted to steal their land

• believed Marcus Whitman wanted to teach them about God

Multiple Choice

What disease is causing mass burials and death among the Cayuse that the Waiilatpu band loses up to 250 people in 1847?

• dysentary

• whooping cough

• measles

• smallpox

Multiple Choice

The attack on the Whitman Mission left how many people dead?

• 2 people died

• 5 people died

• 10 people died

• 13 people died

Multiple Choice

As a result of the all the diseases hitting the Cayuse Indians, the Cayuse fear and begin to believe...

• Marcus Whitman's medicine only works on the immigrants

• that Marcus Whitman is poisoning the Cayuse

• that the Cayuse must eliminate all the Americans moving west

• that the God of the Whitman's is weak and doesn't heal diseases