| 1. | When travelers traveled west, the Oregon Trail was most often used. |
| 2. | Settlers banded together in wagon trains on the trail in order that they might travel in safety. |
| 3. | Military forts were built along the trail at rest stops because the settlers needed protection from the Indians. |
| 4. | The deep ruts caused by the wagon wheels, where the wagons followed the trail, may be seen today. |
| 5. | The canvas covered wagons moved over the rolling prairie as if they were "prairie schooners." |
| 6. | Since the wagons were built in Conestoga, Pennsylvania, the covered wagon was called a "Conestoga wagon." |
| 7. | Because the wagons were heavy freight Conestoga wagons, the wagons were usually pulled by six horses or six oxen. |
| 8. | Often, the wagon train stopped so that the dead could be buried along the trail. |
| 9. | The wagon train stopped each Sunday so that the settlers could rest and worship. |
| 10. | Travelers wrote about natural monuments while they traveled on the Oregon Trail. |
| 11. | While the trail followed the Platte River, settlers saw Chimney Rock, Jail House Rock, and Independence Rock. |
| 12. | Wagon trains usually stopped for several days when the train reached Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory. |
| 13. | So that the wagon trains could move beyond the mountains, the trail left the Platte River and went through a pass in southern Wyoming Territory. |
| 14. | After the settlers left Fort Bridger in Wyoming, they found that the trail branched with the Oregon Trail going to Oregon and the California Trail going to California. |