Answer the following questions about the Oregon Territory.
What areas did the Oregon country include?
What nations laid claim to the Oregon country in the early 1800s?
Why did Americans want control of the Oregon country?
What agreement did John Quincy Adams work out with Great Britain in 1818 regarding the Oregon country?
Who were the mountain men?
How did mountain men make their living and what was the highlight of their year?
What did mountain men, such as Kit Carson, do for work after most of the beavers were killed off?
When did the first large-scale migration to Oregon country take place?
What was the path called that the pioneers followed into Oregon country?
What were the wagons called that held the pioneers’ supplies and belongings?
How did Native Americans assist pioneers on their journey West?
Where did most of the pioneers settle?
What 1844 campaign slogan referred to the line of latitude that Democrats believed should be the nation’s northern border in Oregon?
| Your Responses | Sample Answers |
|---|---|
| present-day Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; parts of Montana and Wyoming, and about half of what became British Columbia | |
| United States, Great Britain, Spain, and Russia | |
| to gain access to the Pacific Ocean | |
| joint occupation | |
| American adventurers who spent most of their time in the Rocky Mountains | |
| by trapping beaver for furs and the annual rendezvous | |
| They acted as guides for the settlers. | |
| 1843, when more than 1,000 pioneers left Independence, Missouri | |
| the Oregon Trail | |
| prairie schooners | |
| They acted as guides, and they traded necessary food and supplies. | |
| Willamette Valley south of the Columbia River | |
| “Fifty-four Forty or Fight” | |
