Oregon Trail

Who were the Pioneers?

• A baseball team
• People who cut down pine trees
• The first people to move west (ex. using the Oregon Trail)
• Men who moved west without their families

Travelers moved west using what?

• cars

• planes

• wagons

• ship

People would travel together over the trail in

• wagon trains

• single file lines

• small groups of 3-4 wagons

What were the difficulties of the Oregon Trail?

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

All pioneers made it to Orgeon and no one died on the trail.

• True
• False

People had to cross rivers to get to the Oregon Trail.

• False 
• True 

The Oregon Trail was roughly

• 500 miles long

• 1000 miles long

• 1500 miles long

• 2000 miles long.

What direction did pioneers travel when on the trail?

• North

• South

• East

• West

The Oregon Trail was the only way for settlers to get across the

• ocean

• deserts

• mountains

• valleys

Many people _______the entire two-thousand miles to the Oregon Territory.

• drove

• sailed

• flew

• walked