The Oregon trail
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- Mountain Men in Oregon Country
- Hey! You want to buy some beaver pelts?
- Sure!
- Not yet!
- The Oregon Trail
- Are we almost there?
- Manifest Destiny
- This is Gods plan for us!
- Lest go west!
- “Mountain Men” was the name given to trappers who were lured west by the profits of the fur trade. They moved into Oregon Country, the huge, barely charted area beyond the Rockies, where the forests and mountains were home to beaver and other fur-bearing animals.
- Mexican-American War
- Should I be loyal to Mexico or the US!?
- This is now USA'S territory!
- The Oregon Trail was a roughly 2,000-mile route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, which was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west. The trail was arduous and snaked through Missouri and present-day Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and finally into Oregon.
- Mormons in Utah
- Father this water is salty!
- Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined, by God, its advocates believed, to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
- California Gold Rush
- The war, in which U.S. forces were consistently victorious, resulted in the United States' acquisition of more than 500,000 square miles of Mexican territory extending westward from the Rio Grande to the Pacific Ocean.
- No its not!
- In 1857 during the "Utah War," the Mormons abandoned their Salt Lake City homes as the U.S. Army approached, but returned to them unscathed and would never again be forced to flee for their lives and abandon everything they knew; for the first time, they had found a permanent home.
- How about we call it Salt Lake City!
- The California Gold Rush was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter's Mill in Coloma, California. The news of gold brought approximately 300,000 people to California from the rest of the United States and abroad.
- Hurry! There's gold over here!
- WOW!
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