Trails+West-+Settling+the+West


 * Main Idea-** Pioneers made difficult journeys to settle in the west.
 * Fact 1-** In 1824, Crow Indians showed a trapper a way thought the Rocky Mountains that was wide enough for wagons. The route was called the South Pass. By the end of the South Pass the route was known as the Oregon Trail.
 * Fact 2-** The Oregon Trail was about 2,000 miles long. it started in missouri and stertched west across the rocky mountains to present-day oregon. In some plces the trail was wide and open. when it crossed rivers and mountains, the path became very narrow.
 * Fact 3-** Pioneers made difficult journeys to settle in west. They wanted to start a new life in a new place. Many people were farmers that wanted cheap or free land to start new farms. Other people wanted to find gold. Some hunted animals for their fur to trade. They hunted for deer, buffalo hides and beaver pelts.
 * Fact 4 **- Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were toe of the first pioneer to travel the oregon trail. They were missionaries who settled in eastern orgon in 1836. They wanted to teach american indians about christianity. There mission became a place where travelers could rest.

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> > " Not a drop of water nor a spear of grass to be seen, nothing but barren, bare and brokenrock ,sand and dust:" > > >

This is a BrainPop video on the Westward Expansion
http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/westwardexpansion/

**It was a very hard to get there many of the forty-niners die of**
 * 1) Thirst
 * 2) Starvation
 * 3) Heat Sroke
 * 4) And many other sicknesses that include cholera, on their way to calfonia

As we go up the hill! So merrily on our way we go, Untill we reach the valley O! " This was a very popular song in the 1850s as the forty niners came to California **
 * " **** For **** some must push and some may pull
 * These forty niners are panning for gold and starting to make a fire to rest**



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