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EQ: Why did people go West and what challenges did they face? Trails to the West EQ: Why did people go West and what challenges did they face?

What would you consider to be the “Wild West?” Why there?

What do you think the Wild West Looks Like?

Trails to the West? Why do you think people went to the West? What do you think they found there?

Manifest Destiny Many people went to the West because of a belief called Manifest Destiny Based on the following quote, what do you think it is? ".... the right of our manifest destiny to over spread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the development of the great experiment of liberty and development of self-government entrusted to us. It is right such as that of the tree to the space of air and the earth suitable for the full expansion of its principle and destiny of growth."

Overland Immigration to the West

Why go West? Americans during this time period began believing in “Manifest Destiny” Belief that it was God’s will for American’s to extend the U.S. from the Atlantic to the Pacific Believed Anglo-Saxon (white) race was superior race and wanted to spread its influence Believed that it was Americans’ duty to spread democracy

Why go West? Other Reasons Overcrowded cities Economic depression in 1819 and 1839 drew people to make their living on the frontier Land was inexpensive and sometimes free! Land ownership associated with wealth, self-reliance, and independence Trading opportunities

Where did they settle? Most settled in the Northwest and Southwest Known as Oregon Country Land from the Rockies to the Pacific Very fertile land Southwest Had a culture and history very different from the Eastern U.S.

How did they get there?

How did they get there? Santa Fe Trail The Oregon Trail 800 miles, from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico Had to cross rivers, pass over mountains, go through a desert The Oregon Trail 2,000 miles from Missouri to Oregon Walked the trail and carried their things in covered wagons Took about 5 months

The Oregon Trail – Albert Bierstadt, 1869

Dangers?

The Donner Party

What trail did they take? What struggles did they face? Why did they come? What trail did they take? Where did they settle? What struggles did they face? Looking for new markets, fur trading Santa Fe, Bucknell’s Route Traders Santa Fe & Oregon Rivers, quicksand, mountains, Cold, heat, animals, Indians

What trail did they take? What struggles did they face? Why did they come? What trail did they take? Where did they settle? What struggles did they face? Religious beliefs Convert Indians Oregon Trail Missionaries Oregon Cayuse Indians attacked & killed them after spreading Measles killing their people.

What trail did they take? What struggles did they face? Why did they come? What trail did they take? Where did they settle? What struggles did they face? Free land & fertile soil Oregon Trail Farmers California or where they Stopped on the trail Disease, accidents, lost in the Mountains dust, storms, & floods

What trail did they take? What struggles did they face? Why did they come? What trail did they take? Where did they settle? What struggles did they face? Conflict with beliefs in the West Land & property Mormon Trail Mormons Crickets, destroyed harvest, Nauvoo Indians mean to them NY-OH-MO-IL-Utah

What trail did they take? What struggles did they face? Why did they come? What trail did they take? Where did they settle? What struggles did they face? To mine gold California Trail Forty-niners Fighting over gold rights & water rights Sacramento Valley, CA Or Sutter Mill, CA

The People of West Who are they???