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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. . Section 2: Oregon Fever. Great Migration of 1843- Video First big group of settlers

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Entry Task

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  1. 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.

  2. Section 2: Oregon Fever • Great Migration of 1843- Video • First big group of settlers • Included Marcus Whittman • 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.

  3. 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?)

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. Video

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