View to Learn - The Oregon Trail
Please watch this video and write four complete sentences about new information and facts that you learned about the Oregon Trail or Westward Expansion! Please also write two sentences on things you are still wondering about. Be sure to check your grammar and punctuation at the beginning and the end of your sentences.
2 things I'm still wondering about is where and how did they shower? And how did they brush there teeth?And now for what I learned the pioneers thought that the rest of the country was a dry desert but it was useful land. They called their wagons prairie schooners. Love the coolest Oregon Trail traveler Helena!
ReplyDeleteI wonder the same things!
DeleteI did not know that pioneers did not have fresh soil. How many battles took place on the Oregon trail? How many different kinds of food did they eat? Including humans.
ReplyDeleteI learned that the native americans helped the pioneers but the worst fear was native americans killing the pioneers. A other fact that I learned that they moved 15 miles every day but on muddy days they would only moved one. my facts about the western expansion was that there were 2500 people on the oregon trail. When the pioneers came the native americans were loosing buffalo and the cattle ate all the grass.A other thing is that the oregon trail turned into a train track. And thats about it!!
ReplyDeleteThey only moved 15 miles in a day. The trail was about 2,000 miles. The pioneers thought that past the Mississippi river was a dry dessert. Some pioneers were killed by Native Americans. How did they go to the bathroom and shower? What did they do if they ran out of food?
ReplyDeleteI think they hunted buffalo if they ran out of food.
DeleteOr they hunted other animals!
DeleteI learned that the pioneers traveled 1 to 15 miles a day. Also I learned that men usually rode on horseback to herd the cattle. Woman and children walked. Also if they started off to early they there would not be enough grass for the cattle. Would little kids walk?
ReplyDeletehow did they take a shower?
Hi it is Kate and I still have this question that is getting on my nerves that is Do they take showers and were do they take them? One of the things I learned was That they (pioneers) thought the land was just a dry dessert. Another thing I learned was that everybody lived East and they wanted the country to grow. One more thing was they wanted more land and needed fresh air and get away from sickness
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Love, Kate
I learned that #1 In the 19 century the US stretched from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the rocky mountains in the west. #2 most of the land beyond the Mississippi was untouched. #3 Native Americans basically lived where the pioneers were going to put their claim on the land and they also broke a lot of oaths. #4 there were not many pioneers who had come to the new land yet. #5 they wanted their country to grow larger. #6 when they wrote letters to their family and friends they described the land as fertile and everyone wanted to come and live there too. #7 the pioneers wanted a new life. #8 they started a route that became known as the Oregon Trail!!!
ReplyDeleteI am wondering about how or when they went to the restroom? I am also wondering about how would they escape from attacks? I learned most of the land in Mississippi was untouched. They thought the western plains were like a desert. They believed in Manifest Destiny. Every spring the pioneers gathered in Independence, Missouri. The journey was 2,000 miles!!
ReplyDeleteIm wondering how did they go the restroom and how many attacks were there. They had no fresh soil. About every spring the pioneers garthered in Independence,missouri
ReplyDeleteI learned a lot from that video. I learned that the start point was Independence, Missouri. The journey took the pioneers four to six months! That's a LONG time! The pioneers thought that the native americans would be really mean. The Native Americans were not mean. I still wonder what would happen if one of the children pioneers were spoiled and threw lots of fits. That would be hard on the parents! I wonder if any of them stayed in the east. Probably not.I learned a lot today! BYE!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't watch the video because a glitch said that the web address was wrong ( whatever that means,) but I decided to blog eneyway about my BK. I know that 1 out of 10 pioneers died on the trip out west. I also know that some pioneers kept a journal or diary to write about their experiences. I also know that pioneers traveled in wagon trains and rubbed the top of ther wagon with oil to make it water proof. Also many pioneers gave birth on the trail.
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