NAME _________________________________________________________________PERIOD _________W.T. _______
1. In what year did the Donner Party go west?

(3:00)

2. How many people were in the Donner Party?
(4:00)

3. What was unusual about the Reed's family wagon?

(10:00)

4. What was wrong with Lansford Hastings's shortcut?

(12:00)

5. Who was the first person to die in the Donner Party?

(16:00)

6. At Fort Larmie what advice did James Clyman give to James Reed regarding taking Hastings's shortcut?

(18:00)

7. What did the emigrants of the Donner Party "eat up" as they crossed the Wasatch Mountains through Echo Canyon?

(26:00)

8. Name two things that happened to the emigrants when they crossed the Great Salt Desert?

(32:00)

9. Why was James Reed banished (kicked out) of the wagon train?

(37:00)

10. What accident happened to George Donner?

(40:00)

11. What event made it impossible for Sutter to send help to the stranded wagon train?

(45:00)

12. Name some "foods' the hungry emigrants were forced to eat?

(50:00)

13. Why did the members of the "Forlorn Hope" draw lots?

(53:00)

14. What event made the members of the "Forlorn Hope" curse Landsford Hastings?

56:00)

15. What two people were murdered for food?

(1:03)

16. Why couldn't the first rescue party see anyone when they first got to Truckee Lake?

(1:04)

17. Why did Tamsen Donner refuse to leave with the rescue party?

(1:11)

18. How many members of the Donner Party survived?

(1:14)

19. Which group (men, women or children) had the best survival rate?

(1:15)

20. What family suffered the most?

(1:15)

21. What advice did Virginia Reed give in her letter to Mary?

(1:21)