The Oregon Trail

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The Reason so many immigrants took the Oregon trail was they wanted the rich farmland, gold, and treasures Oregon had to offer.
The Oregon trail was a 2,000-mile route from Missouri to Oregon
The journey took place in 1811-1840 and was traveled by foot and wagon alone.
The trail was huge and sliced through Missouri, present-day Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and finally into Oregon. The origins of the trail lie within the Lewis and Clark expedition.
But because of hard circumstances sadly, one in every seventeen people on the trail died.
The goal of the trip westward was to achieve “Manifest Destiny” to reach “from sea to shining sea.”
As more and more people took the Oregon trail posts and forts were created on the way as pitstops for the travelers.
In order to avoid the freezing cold winter, travelers left in the springtime, but that meant they had to endure brutal summer heat.
Because of harsh conditions along the trail many people would have to toss away valuable items to make their load lighter.
The trail consisted of many passes through rough mountains. One pass named the southern pass which had been used by Native Americans was the most important.
Once railroads were invented people no longer used the Oregon trail.
But in the end the Oregon trail proved to be a major key in U.S. westward expansion.

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