Oregon Trail Test

People who traveled along the trails to the West for better life we called...

• pioneers

• Prairie schooners

• Forts

• mosquitoes

Pioneers would often go in a ______________ of a hundred or more wagons.

• two-thousand

• Oregon

• corral

• caravan

Covered wagons were called ___________ because their round canvas tops looked like sails on a ship.

• cholera

• two-thousand

• Prairie schooners

• Forts

Many people traveled west to California because they were hoping to strike it rich! They had "_______________".

• mosquitoes

• cholera

• corral

• Gold Fever

The Oregon Trail was a long and dangerous journey covering close to ______________ miles.

• three

• two hundred

• thirty seven

• two thousand

Many pioneers of the Oregon Trail suffered from __________ because of all the sickness spreading easily on the trail.

• mosquitoes

• cholera

• caravan

• corral

The Oregon Trail started in Independence, Missouri, and went to ___________________ City

• Gold Fever

• San Francisco

• Nebraska

• Oregon

These military stations were often called _____________, where pioneers could replenish supplies and mail back letters to their families back East.

• Forts

• Corral

• Caravan

• Prairie Schooners

___________ would sometimes fall in pancakes or bread batters, making "skeeter cakes" that the pioneers would then eat.

• Cholera

• Corral

• Mosquitoes

• Oregon

Wagon trains would often form a large horseshoe shape at night, or a _______ to protect themselves from any dangers.

• Caravan

• Gold Fever

• Corral

• Pioneers