1. manifest Destiny
It is the19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.

2. Technology

4. What reasons did different groups have for moving west?
Adventure
Financial Opportunities
Religion
Free land
Technology
New Beginnings

5. Mountain Men Charted the West Maps Conditions Relations
After fur trade-became guides

6. MORMONS Established settlements Religious Awakening
Religious Utopian culture
Established Routes
Mormon Trail

7. 49er’s “There’s gold in them there Hills”
People from all over the world flocked to CA to get Rich
all walks of life; farmers, lawyers, doctors, priests
Trails: Oregon and Santa Fe Trail
Rush more than doubled the world’s supply of gold
Not many miners were successful
Merchants made huge profits
Many stayed and farmed or ran a business
Population sorer-need for effective government

8. Whitman Missionaries Among first to travel Oregon Country
Wanted to bring Religion to Native Americans-Cayuse in Walla Walla, WA
Dr. Marcus Whitman and wife Narcissa
New Settlers unknowingly brought measles
An epidemic killed many Native Children
Natives blamed Whitmans and attacked the mission and killed them and 11 others

9. Oregon Trail Tens of thousands of people made the trip.
Served as the most practical route to the western United States.