Oregon Trail Test

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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