What was the biggest threat of traveling west in the manner shown in the illustration?
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Responses
Disease spread quickly because the travelers lived so close together.
Individual wagons would oftentimes be separated from the group.
Settlers were unable to purchase or trade for goods along the way.
Groups faced the possibility of ambush by hostile natives.
Groups faced the possibility of ambush by hostile natives.
What main reason Congress initially refused to annex Texas is supported by the information on this map? Select all that apply.
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Responses
If the United States annexed Texas, it would almost certainly mean war with Mexico.
If the United States annexed Texas, it would enter as a free state and anger Southerners.
If the United States annexed Texas, slave states would almost certainly outnumber free states.
If the United States annexed Texas, it would jeopardize the country’s other claims in California.
If the United States annexed Texas, it would almost certainly mean war with Mexico.
If the United States annexed Texas, it would jeopardize the country’s other claims in California.
It began as an unconnected series of trails used by Native Americans. Fur Traders expanded the route to transport pelts to trading posts and rendezvous. In the 1830s missionaries followed the still faint trail along the Platte River and the Snake to establish church connections in the Northwest. A combination of economic and political events in the 1840s converged to start a large scale migration west on what was then known as "The Oregon Road." Joel Walker is credited as the first settler to make the complete trip with a family, in 1840. Large scale migration started in 1843, when a wagon train of over 800 people with 120 wagons and 5,000 cattle made the five month journey. In 1847 Mormons escaping persecution headed toward Salt Lake, and the discovery of gold in California in 1848 sent a wave of fortune seekers west. Military posts, trading posts, shortcuts, and spur roads sprang off the Oregon Trail over the next three decades.
—Department of the Interior
Question
Use the passage to answer the question.
Which of the following best summarizes this passage?
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Responses
The Oregon Trail was first used by Mormons fleeing religious persecution.
The Oregon Trail grew from small beginnings to a major migration route.
The Oregon Trail was made more accessible by missionaries who helped define the route.
The Oregon Trail was developed by the military to monitor interactions between Native American groups and settlers.