Question

Before the 1847 Cayuse attack, the Whitman Mission was a popular stopping point for settlers traveling along the Oregon Trail.

Answer 1

Answer:

Dr. Marcus Whitman and his wife, Narcissa, went to Oregon in 1836 and built a mission among the Cayuse people near the present site of Walla, Walla Washington

-new settlers unknowingly brought measles to the mission

-an epidemic killed many children of the Cayuse

-blaming the Whitman's for the sickness, the Cayuse attacked the mission killing the Whitman's and 11 others

Explanation:

located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains north of California

-four nations (United States, Great Britain, Spain and Russia) claimed the land