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!”