Introduction
Answer the following questions, on a separate piece of paper, while watching the documentary.
Process
What is the most valuable commodity in the West?
2. What does the freezing Rocky Mountain water do to beaver pelts?
3. How many calories are need each day to survive as a trapper in the West?
4. What animal is the most deadly frontier beast?
5. One of the paths used by Jedediah Smith survives today as __________________________.
6. What was & is the “American Dream” according to the video.
7. What is the “greatest toll of all” on the trails west?
8. What did the members of the Donner Party turn to as a food source after all of their food options seemed exhausted (i.e. pack animals, charred bones, twigs, bark, leaves, dirt).
9.What precious metal (hidden under the Sierra Nevada) changed the West?
10. What North American nation was an even bigger superpower than the United States in the 1830s?