Oregon Trail Scavenger Hunt Answer Key

1. Journey by sea was very expensive, most pioneers came from central states far from any sea
ports, and the journey by sea took a year, rather than a few months by wagon
2. Platte River
3. More than 5,000 names of pioneers were carved on the boulder
4. To protect and supply wagon trains
5. They provide us with an understanding of what life was like early in the history of the Oregon
Trail
6. Differences in culture and a measles outbreak that was blamed on the Whitmans