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Title: Heading West


1
Heading West
2
Manifest Destiny
  • Idea that God wanted America to spread from sea
    to sea
  • Reasons
  • Religious freedom
  • Wanted own land

3
Settling Land
  • squatter person who settles on land hoping to
    own it
  • Jethro Tull iron blade plow
  • John Deere plow with sharp steel blades
  • Cyrus McCormick mechanical reaper

4
Moving West (Trails)
  • Oregon controlled by both U.S. GB
  • California owned by Mexico but Americans
    allowed to settle there
  • Oregon Trail most popular westward route
  • Others
  • California Trail
  • Santa Fe Trail

5
Trails cont.
  • Mormon Trail
  • Religious freedom
  • Brigham Young led 1,000s west
  • Stopped at the Great Salt Lake
  • Travel
  • Journey made in conestoga wagons
  • 5-6 months at 15 miles per day
  • Men drove wagon, hunted, tended animals
  • Women cooked, laundry, child care

6
The Donner Party
  • The trip west was extremely difficult and didnt
    always go as planned
  • Roughly half of the 87 ppl in the group died on
    the trip
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