1. Manifest Destiny Land fever leads to pronounced changes to the United States.

4. Westward Expansion Manifest Destiny-1845, John L. Sullivan. Causes? National Pride Economic Gain Expansion of Rail Expansion of slavery “The sun of civilization must shine across the sea: socially and commercially” T.H. Benton

5. Oregon Country Lure? “quotes” Competing claims Women and hardship? “mountain men”

7. Maps

8. The Oregon Trail

9. Oregon Trail: OE!

10. Native Americans Plains Native Americans—unique and different to the Eastern Woodlands Horse Buffalo Native American Wars and competing land claims. “Fort policy” “concentration policy” Fort Laramie Conference: creation of a “corridor”

12. Fort Laramie Chief Red Cloud and General William Tecumseh Sherman sign the Fort Laramie Treaty, which brings an end to war along the Bozeman Trail. Under terms of the treaty, the United States agrees to abandon its forts along the Bozeman Trail and grant enormous parts of the Wyoming, Montana and Dakota Territories, including the Black Hills area, to the Lakota people as their exclusive territory.

16. Mormon Exodus Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon Appeal of Mormonism in the Antebellum “amidst social turmoil and rampant materialism” Drove from New York to Ohio to Missouri to Nauvoo Illinios…then to Salt Lake City. “Garden in the Desert” Brigham Young and the Mormon Wars