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WorksheetsSamuel Stout and James Abbey's Journals of the Oregon Trail
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
Samuel Stout's party passed Fort Kearny on May 18. Why was that fort originally built?
to protect a nearby gold mining town
It was originally a British fort they refused to give up.
to watch over the Indian Territory
to protect emigrants.
On June 6, Stout's team reached Fort Laramie. What is significant about that location?
The soldiers built barges (boats) for emigrants to use to cross the nearby Blue River.
It protected emigrants from a large Native American population in the vicinity.
Emigrants could resupply there.
Emigrants could hire guides who lived in the fort.
Between June 25 and July 8, the team stops at Soda Springs. What did Stout make note of?
The landscape turned to volcanic rock.
Native Americans stayed away from that area.
Their cattle refused to graze on the grass there.
The water coming out of Soda Springs was naturally carbonated.
One of the problems that Stout's group had in July was a lack of what?
geographic features to get their bearings
forests to hunt in
grass for the cattle
other wagon trains
How do Stout's emigrants get across the Deschutes River in late August?
They hired a Native American guide to find a safe place to cross.
They paid for a ferry to take them across.
They tried to walk through the river, but their wagon flooded.
They attempted to float down the river, but their wagon capsized.
(Abbey) On Saturday, April 20, what did the boys do?
They chased down a lost ox.
They found a Native American guide to help them across a river.
They hunted and brought back animals for food.
They all got sick with measles.
(Abbey) On April 21, which disease did the man probably have?
cholera
dysentery
measles
flu
(Abbey) Which of the following most likely happened on May 12?
They broke an axle and had to stop.
Their wagon flooded in the Missouri River.
Native Americans attacked them.
An ox got injured.
(Abbey) What did James come across in the prairie on April 27?
bison
rattlesnakes
prairie dogs
a family of beavers
(Abbey) On May 1, James's team stopped at Little Blue River where a young man died of
measles
dysentery
snakebite
cholera
(Abbey) Which geographic feature made of pure granite did James encounter on June 10?
South Pass
Willamette Valley
Independence Rock
Grande Ronde Rock
