Mormon Trail/Pioneer Wagon Trip

Who were the Mormons?

• 1848 when gold was found in California
• name given to members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints
• Mexican General
• created by Congress in 1848 as an area that included present day Oregon

Which group of people were persecuted, or badly treated, by their neighbors in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, and then decided to move to Utah?

• Mormon pioneers
• Goshute Native Americans
• Pioneers headed to Oregon
• The Donner-Reed party

Why were Mormons going on the Mormon Trail?

• They were being persecuted 
• People wanted their lands 
• Natives didn't want them on their land 
• All of the above

Who led the Mormons from Navoo to Salt Lake City?

• Joseph Smith
• Brigham Young
• God

Land that is unsettled and not developed is

• pioneer
• migration
• cession
• frontier

Where did the travellers of the Oregon Trail originally set out from?

• Nebraska
• Idaho
• Wyoming
• Missouri

What animals often pulled the wagons?

• horse, mule, oxen
• oxen, mule, dogs
• buffalo, oxen, mule
• oxen, buffalo, horses

What were the difficulties of the Oregon Trail/Mormon Trail?

• Length of the journey
• Disease
• Weather
• All of the above

What is known as the "register of the desert" and if pioneers made it to this location by the 4th of July assured the wagon trains would make it through the Rockies before winter.

• Chimney Rock
• Devil's Gate
• Independence Rock
• Scott's Bluff

What is a covered wagon used to carry freight across the prairies

• Conestoga
• Cone
• Finger Wagon
• Car