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4th grade · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 8

The Oregon Country

Explorers, fur traders and Tribes

What your child practices

Tribes of the Oregon Country before and during exploration, Robert Gray, Lewis and Clark with Sacagawea and York, the fur trade, joint occupation, Champoeg and the Oregon Treaty, and comparing old and new maps.

Oregon State Standards learning standard: 4.H.CH.1; 4.G.MM.4; 4.G.GR.3 · the Indigenous peoples of Oregon during exploration, patterns of exploration and settlement, and comparing historical maps

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    In 1792, American captain Robert Gray sailed into a great river and named it after his ship. Which river?

    • the Snake River
    • the Willamette River
    • the Columbia River

  2. Question 2

    Explorers' maps from the 1700s and 1800s often left out…

    • the Tribal lands and villages already there
    • all rivers
    • the Pacific Ocean

  3. Question 3

    Dr. John McLoughlin, who ran a large British fur-trading fort on the Columbia, is often called the…

    • captain of the Columbia
    • Father of Oregon
    • first governor of Oregon

  4. Question 4

    Which two explorers led the Corps of Discovery to the Pacific in 1805?

    • Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan
    • Robert Gray and John McLoughlin
    • Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

  5. Question 5

    Fur traders wanted beaver pelts mostly to make…

    • boats
    • hats
    • houses

  6. Question 6

    The fur trade changed many Tribes' lives because…

    • nothing changed
    • Tribes stopped trading
    • new goods, new diseases and new people arrived

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