2. Entry Task  You are a promoter for the Oregon Trail. Create a poster to encourage people to make the journey.  Use illustrations and highlight the desirable parts of the territory.

3. Section 2: Oregon FeverOregon Fever  Great Migration of 1843-  First big group of settlers  Included Marcus Whitman  Wagons packed full of necessary supplies  Packing List (don’t write)  Flour, corn meal, sugar, fruit, molasses, butter, lard, and other things in jars and jugs, well- wrapped bacon and hams, some vegetables, homemade soap, salt for the animals, rosin and tar for the wagons, medicine, extra bedding and other equipment  Ax, pots and pans, water bucket, rifle, shovel, rope, hammer.

4. Covered Wagons  Ox-pulled wagons make 18-20 miles per day  Life on trail was a mix of hardship and adventure  Trip took 6 months  Read 97 Daily Schedule (Volunteer?)

5. Dangers!  Brainstorm as a class and see how many dangers we can match.  Firewood hard to find  Rough land  Indian attack!  Diseases  Deaths  Trail births  Rivers

6. Why did people want to go?  There was a depression in 1840  Money was scarce  Sell crops in Asia  Leave Slavery  Plentiful goods (Lewis and Clark)  Free Land (Main Attraction, Hello! Future test question?)  Manifest Destiny

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