Westward Expansion comic strip
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- Men in Oregon Country
- i wish it would stop raining:((
- The Oregon trail
- Manifest Destiny
- AHHHHHHHHHHHH
- The Mountain Men had to go through fertile soil, mild temperature, rainfall, coastal mountains, forests and animal life. the land was claimed by Britain, United States and Native Americans.Mountain men explore the west + lead settlers across mountain trails to Oregon
- The Mexican American War, 1846-1848
- WHAT THE HECK!!!
- They began the journey west in may. The Oregon trail was 2,000 miles long to the west Oregon Country,Pioneers had to make the journey 5+ months long to beat the mountain snow, they traveled 15 miles a day and took some days to rest
- Mormons in utah
- Americans believed their nation and government was the best in the world- saw it as their duty to spread their democratic government cultureused to justify american belifs
- California gold rush!!
- I'm gonna be rich!!!!
- -us refused to annex (add) Texas-senate feared war with mexico!Annexation Angers Mexico! -never accepted Texan independence-feared American rebellions and expansion to CA and NM
- NO ANNEXATION!!TEXAS!!
- Mormons are a more recent religion following the church of jesus made by Joseph Smith in 1830Mormons believed that property should be owned & men should have more than one marriage.
- The california gold rush started when a man named John Sutter found gold on his property, this word spread fast. People from all around the work came looking for this gold but very few was able to find some. This eventually turned California into a state in 1850.
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