Oregon Trail Exam (ANSWERED)
Oregon Trail - Correct Answer East to west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United
States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.
Reasons Americans traveled west - Correct Answer Missionaries Patriotism Protect the borders of our
new land Economic Depression Free land and farming
The Panic of 1837 - Correct Answer financial crisis in the United States, which lasted until the mid-
1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down; unemployment went up.
Missionaries - Correct Answer Taught the Natives about Jesus and the Bible in the 1830s Dr. Marcus
Whitman and his Wife, Narcissa Narcissa claims that the South Pass is easy to travel
The Peoria Party - Correct Answer a group of men from Peoria, Illinois colonize the Oregon Country on
behalf of the United States drive out the British fur trading companies operating there
Great Migration of 1843 - Correct Answer an estimated 700 to 1,000 emigrants left for Oregon in large
wagon train groups.
Immigrate - Correct Answer coming to a new country
Emigrate - Correct Answer exiting your current homeland
Migrate - Correct Answer to move (not always permanent)
Lansford Hastings - Correct Answer American explorer best remembered as the developer of Hastings
Cutoff, a claimed shortcut to California across what is now the state of Utah.
Who was the author of The Emigrants' Guide - Correct Answer Lansford Hastings
, Westward Movement Impact on Native Americans - Correct Answer The arrival of settlers destroyed
entire communities and ultimately changed the character of native culture and North America forever.
Introduced diseases that devastated native populations. Hindered access to land that the tribes had
relied on for centuries.
Indian Nonintercourse Act 1809 - Correct Answer The various Acts were intended to regulate commerce
between settlers and the natives in 1809.
Native American Trade - Correct Answer legally were only allowed to trade at the trading posts.
During times of the Nonintercourse Act, White settlers tricked tribes into...... - Correct Answer Tribal
Debt
Tribal Debt - Correct Answer Native Americans could only repay debt with their ancestral land
Enculturation - Correct Answer the process by which people learn the dynamics of their surrounding
culture and acquire values and norms appropriate or necessary to that culture
Cherokee Phoenix - Correct Answer first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States
and the first published in a Native American language. The first issue was published in English and
Cherokee.
Georgia Gold Rush was Also known as The________________ - Correct Answer Great Intrusion of 1829
During the Georgia Goldrush, there was a sudden influx of __________ into the Cherokee Nation. -
Correct Answer miners
Much of the land on which the gold was found during the Georgia Goldrush was under the control of
the___________ - Correct Answer Cherokee.
Tensions between the ___________ and various other states, including Georgia, led to the forced
migration of Native Americans. Which became known as the Indian Removal Act - Correct Answer
Cherokee
Oregon Trail - Correct Answer East to west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United
States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.
Reasons Americans traveled west - Correct Answer Missionaries Patriotism Protect the borders of our
new land Economic Depression Free land and farming
The Panic of 1837 - Correct Answer financial crisis in the United States, which lasted until the mid-
1840s. Profits, prices, and wages went down; unemployment went up.
Missionaries - Correct Answer Taught the Natives about Jesus and the Bible in the 1830s Dr. Marcus
Whitman and his Wife, Narcissa Narcissa claims that the South Pass is easy to travel
The Peoria Party - Correct Answer a group of men from Peoria, Illinois colonize the Oregon Country on
behalf of the United States drive out the British fur trading companies operating there
Great Migration of 1843 - Correct Answer an estimated 700 to 1,000 emigrants left for Oregon in large
wagon train groups.
Immigrate - Correct Answer coming to a new country
Emigrate - Correct Answer exiting your current homeland
Migrate - Correct Answer to move (not always permanent)
Lansford Hastings - Correct Answer American explorer best remembered as the developer of Hastings
Cutoff, a claimed shortcut to California across what is now the state of Utah.
Who was the author of The Emigrants' Guide - Correct Answer Lansford Hastings
, Westward Movement Impact on Native Americans - Correct Answer The arrival of settlers destroyed
entire communities and ultimately changed the character of native culture and North America forever.
Introduced diseases that devastated native populations. Hindered access to land that the tribes had
relied on for centuries.
Indian Nonintercourse Act 1809 - Correct Answer The various Acts were intended to regulate commerce
between settlers and the natives in 1809.
Native American Trade - Correct Answer legally were only allowed to trade at the trading posts.
During times of the Nonintercourse Act, White settlers tricked tribes into...... - Correct Answer Tribal
Debt
Tribal Debt - Correct Answer Native Americans could only repay debt with their ancestral land
Enculturation - Correct Answer the process by which people learn the dynamics of their surrounding
culture and acquire values and norms appropriate or necessary to that culture
Cherokee Phoenix - Correct Answer first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States
and the first published in a Native American language. The first issue was published in English and
Cherokee.
Georgia Gold Rush was Also known as The________________ - Correct Answer Great Intrusion of 1829
During the Georgia Goldrush, there was a sudden influx of __________ into the Cherokee Nation. -
Correct Answer miners
Much of the land on which the gold was found during the Georgia Goldrush was under the control of
the___________ - Correct Answer Cherokee.
Tensions between the ___________ and various other states, including Georgia, led to the forced
migration of Native Americans. Which became known as the Indian Removal Act - Correct Answer
Cherokee
