Guided Reading
Activity 12-1
1. Present day Oregon, Washington,
Idaho, parts of Montana, Wyoming,
British Columbia
 2. U.S., Great Britain, Spain, Russia
 3. to gain access to the Pacific Ocean
 4. joint occupation
 5. American adventurers who spent mosy of
their time in the Rocky Mountains
 6. by trapping Beaver for their furs
 7. the annual rendezvous
 8. they acted as guides for the settlers
 9. 1843, when more than 1,000 pioneers left
Independence, Missouri
 10. the Oregon Trail
 11. prairie schooners
 12. They acted as guides, and they traded
necessary food and supplies
 13. Willamette Valley south of the Columbia
River
 14. Manifest Destiny
 15. “Fifty-four Forty or Fight!”