WorksheetsMormon Trail/Pioneer Wagon Trip
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who were the Mormons?
a)
1848 when gold was found in California
b)
name given to members of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints
c)
Mexican General
d)
created by Congress in 1848 as an area that included present day Oregon
2.
Which group of people were persecuted, or badly treated, by their neighbors in Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois, and then decided to move to Utah?
a)
Mormon pioneers
b)
Goshute Native Americans
c)
Pioneers headed to Oregon
d)
The Donner-Reed party
3.
Why were Mormons going on the Mormon Trail?
a)
They were being persecuted
b)
People wanted their lands
c)
Natives didn't want them on their land
d)
All of the above
4.
Who led the Mormons from Navoo to Salt Lake City?
a)
Joseph Smith
b)
Brigham Young
c)
God
5.
Land that is unsettled and not developed is
a)
pioneer
b)
migration
c)
cession
d)
frontier
6.
Where did the travellers of the Oregon Trail originally set out from?
a)
Nebraska
b)
Idaho
c)
Wyoming
d)
Missouri
7.
What animals often pulled the wagons?
a)
horse, mule, oxen
b)
oxen, mule, dogs
c)
buffalo, oxen, mule
d)
oxen, buffalo, horses
8.
What were the difficulties of the Oregon Trail/Mormon Trail?
a)
Length of the journey
b)
Disease
c)
Weather
d)
All of the above
9.
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.
a)
Chimney Rock
b)
Devil's Gate
c)
Independence Rock
d)
Scott's Bluff
10.
What is a covered wagon used to carry freight across the prairies
a)
Conestoga
b)
Cone
c)
Finger Wagon
d)
Car
11.
What is the time of day that the pioneers would possibly stop to eat a cold lunch, feed and give the animals some rest
a)
Nooning
b)
Oneing
c)
Threeing
d)
Fouring
12.
What was the year did Brigham Young led the Mormons from Nauvoo, Illinois.
a)
1856
b)
1845
c)
1846
d)
1847
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