Missed Questions

What allowed people from both Britain and the United States to settle in Oregon Country?

• joint occupation

• Manifest Destiny

• Oregon Country occupation

• rendezvous

Read the same excerpt described in the previous question by Adolph Wislizenus about a rendezvous along the Green River. Which answer choice best describes the purpose of the meeting as described in the excerpt?

• business and pleasure

• pleasure and government

• business only

• government only

Indicate whether the statement is true or false: President Martin Van Buren agreed to annex Texas.

• True

• False

Mountain men made their living as

• merchants

• missionaries

• surveyors

• trappers

Indicate whether the statement is true or false: The Mexican ranchos had Native Americans working the land in exchange for food and shelter.

• True

• False

Read the quotation: “We are creeping along slowly, one wagon after another, the same old gait, the same thing over, out of one mud hole into another all day.” —Amelia Stewart Knight, 1853. What emotion does this quotation, from a traveler on the Oregon Trail, show?

• anger

• boredom

• excitement

• fear