Oregon Trail

1. people died on both of them

2. they both took weeks or even months to travel on and most who tried it had little supplies

getting drowned by the rushing waves of rivers

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Weather on the Oregon Trail was brutal most of the time due to either too much heat, too much cold, a blizzard, rain, or another type of storm. These were especially brutal if you had been on the trail for a long time. The journey takes 4-6 months.

Game was scarce, but pioneers were able to get bison, deer and rabbit. Beans were one of the other few sources of protein. Biscuits, salt pork, corn bread, dried corn, hull corn, cream corn, and dried corn mush.

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Much of what the pioneers ate on the Oregon Trail was non-perishable food that would travel well and, hopefully, last until they reached their destination. Other food items were either purchased along the way, or were hunted or harvested.

Basic items they would take with them included:

flour

hard tack (aka pilot bread, sea biscuit)

crackers

bacon (salted and preserved pork)

rice

coffee

tea

sugar

saleratus (baking soda)

dried beans

dried vegetables (pumpkin, peppers, onion)

dried fruit (prunes, raisins, currants, apples)

salt

corn meal

corn

vinegar

These ingredients were used to make bread, biscuits, pies, cakes, mush (porridge made from corn meal), corn soup, etc.

Other foods they might bring with them included cheese, chicken, ham, dried beef, sweets/candy, chocolate, codfish, herring, meat biscuits, portable soup, molasses, and syrup.

Most also brought along a cow for the fresh milk and for making butter. Chickens might have been brought along for fresh eggs.

Jam was made from fresh berries found along the way. Also harvested along the way were wild onions, wild plums, etc.

Hunting provided fresh meat from buffalo (bison), deer, rabbits and other wild animals.

About 300 pounds

The people used it to find new land, new settlements na dstarted to make a community out of what they had

People moved out west and started new colonies, and the colonies expanded, thus the growth of the US rose.

Contaminated water.

This was part of the reason most quality guidebooks to the trails recommended using "oxen and one yoke of cow to pull your wagon as the cows can give milk on the trail and they can be sold when you arrive at your destination" as although the reason why drinking the water made people sick was not understood, it was known that people drinking fresh milk on the trail got sick much less often.

The Oregon Trail was a roughly 2,000-mile route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, which was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west

fort laramie and fort bridger

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Well, that depends on how you look at it. Officially, according to an act of Congress, it begins in Independence, Missouri, and ends in Oregon City, Oregon. To the settlers, though, the trail to the Oregon Country was a five-month trip from their old home in the East to their new home in the West. It was different for every family. Some people got ready to leave the East, or "jump off" as they called it, in towns like St. Joseph or Council Bluffs, and others jumped off from their old homes in Illinois or Missouri and picked up the Oregon Trail in the countryside. Along the way, they could choose to take shortcuts or stick to the main trunk of the Trail, and the end of their journey didn't really come until they settled a claim somewhere in the vast Oregon Country.

They faced many problems on the epic journey. They faced muddy rivers, swift rapids, vast desserts, steep mountains, scorching heat, violent thunderstorms, and fierce blizzards. Some people fell off the wagons and others would get in accidents with other wagon travelers.

A variety of incentives led people to attempt the 2,000 mile journey west. Many in the 1840s sought a new beginning following a widespread economic depression in the late 1830s. Some hoped to escape the political strife preceding and during the Civil War. A few settlers had patriotic motives, to ensure American possession of territory jointly claimed by the U.S. and Great Britain in the Northwest, or occupied by Mexico in the Southwest. Some religious groups wished to establish missions and communities. Some moved to join family members. Many emigrants made the trip seeking adventure and new opportunities. The majority of emigrants had as their main reason either land or gold. In Oregon, various land acts, most notably the Donation Land Act of 1850, provided free land, up to 320 or 640 acres, to settlers. The discovery of gold in California in 1848 lured nearly 150,000 people west over the trail in five years. New gold discoveries in Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, and other western states led continuing migrations of fortune seekers to all regions of western America.

There were several hardships that were encountered on the Oregon Trail. Some or all of these included the following: lack of supplies, such as food, water, shelter etc. Also they may have been attacked by Native Americans and wild animals.

Most kids were so busy with chores and travel that school was set aside during the journey. Some wrote letters and kept diaries, and many read from the family Bible to improve their reading skills. They learned a lot from their adventures on the trail, but formal schooling waited until they were settled in Oregon.

You would most likely find 18th - 19th century materials and tools, as well as common foods and water.

courthouse & jailhouse rock, chimney rock, fort laramie, Independence rock, fort bridger, soda springs, fort hall, fort boise, whitman mission, the dalles and oregon city

It took 22 days to cross the river on the Oregon trail.

The Oregon Trail is a computer game originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971 and produced by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium in 1974.

the oregon trail ran in Missouri River to valleys in Oregon. the eastern part of th Oregon trail spanned part of the future state of kansas and nearly all of what are noe the states of Nebraska and Wyoming