Which statement accurately describes travel to Oregon or California on the overland trails during the 1840s?
A) The route was well mapped out and well surveyed.
B) By this period the route detoured around any formidable barriers.
C) Indian massacres wiped out a high percentage of all emigrants.
D) Emigrant families traveled alone in single wagons so that they would not be slowed by the needs of other families.
E) Emigrants cooperated closely with each other and traveled in huge wagon trains.
Question 2
Which one of the following was not one of the results of the California gold rush?
A) Its population increased dramatically.
B) Slaves, free blacks, Indians, Chinese, and Anglos eagerly joined together in the gold fields.
C) The issue of slavery in the Mexican Cession was pushed to the forefront of national politics.
D) The sleepy town of Yerba Buena became a city of 50,000.
E) Minters from all over the world descended upon California.
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