Prior to the transcontinental railroad, those who wanted to travel from the East to the West Coast traveled by wagon across the plains or by ship around South America. They endured the hardship of linking the East and West Coasts of the United States by rail because it was a vital link for trade, commerce and travel.…
Jefferson had many ups and downs during his presidency. Some achievements that he had were the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark expedition. The Embargo Act was one of his greatest failures. The Louisiana Purchase was his greatest achievement. Jefferson bought the land from the French and they easily agreed. The territory was bought for $15 million. “Jefferson had doubled the size of the United States and ended the French presence in North America.” (Foner 311) Lewis and Clark were originally sent out “to study the area’s plants, animal life, and geography, and to discover how the region could be exploited economically…establish trading relation with western Indians and located a water route to the Pacific Ocean.” (Foner…
Hey Clark found another animal it is long and no arms or legs. When Lewis and Clark went west to find out about the Louisiana territory. Lewis and Clark went off on their expedition on May 4, 1804 and came back September 23, 1806. They tried to find the Northwest Passage for the Pacific to the Port of New Orleans.…
In 1534 England was ruled by King Henry VIII. “He ruled for 36 years during this time he married six different wives all to gain more political power.”[1] Two of his marriages ended in annulment, two from natural deaths, and the others from beheadings. What upset a lot of people from the Church of England is the fact that he wanted to annul his first marriage without receiving approval from the pope.…
area. They explored on trails like the Oregon trail for example, this trail took them almost directly to Oregon. This trail was one of the most used trails that were used to travel westward, because of this many towns and villages were planted in different places al around the trail. So, by the time the people had reached the pacific coast, there was already lots and lots towns all around the northern U.S., and other roads to get west from the east coast. Because this was so much of a “boom” of exploration and colonization Thomas Jefferson being the president at that time was pleased. he was so pleases that he even helped the people explored…
Transportation had also played a major role in expansion of the west. Transportation was a way to keep the country connected while moving more westward into the country. Turnpikes and roads were the beginning of it all. Roads such as the National Road, which crossed the Appalachian Mountains and through the Ohio River Valley, were made. Transportation was unable to keep up after the Mexican War. Settlers traveled on wagons through the Oregon and Santa Fe trails, and Stephen Douglas called for railroads to go through the west. In 1852, the Gadsden Purchase was…
The trans-Saharan and Silk Road trade routes were global trade routes that shaped and impacted their respective areas during the Iron Age. The trans-Saharan and Silk Road both used similar methods of trade because of technological innovation and environmental interactions of the time. The trans-Saharan and Silk road trade routes lead to different cultural diffusion due to the difference in diversity among the ethnic groups in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.…
west to be an empty wilderness. And in less than fifty years, from the 1803…
Missouri to Kansas City, I-35 from Missouri and Kansas to what was known as the Oregon Trail near Dodge City Kansas, US 56 from Dodge City to Oklahoma to Springer, New Mexico, and I-25 to Santa Fe.…
That 1843 wagon train, dubbed "the great migration" kicked off a massive move west on the Oregon Trail. Over the next 25 years more than a half million people went west on the Trail. Some went all the way to Oregon's Willamette Valley in search of farmland--many more split off for California in search of gold. The glory years of the Oregon Trail finally ended in 1869, when the transcontinental railroad was completed.…
A friend of yours would like to capture the adventures of Lewis and Clark in a video game, but she needs your help. She wants the game to be awarded Top 10 Kudos like Super Mario, Rock Band, and SimCity. Read all the directions first and follow them carefully to get this new expedition rolling.…
The gold rush was also a big reason Americans favored expansion to the west. Once gold was discovered in California people rushed there to become rich. Gold that was found in rivers before became dried out and had no gold left. This led to mining, which required skill and heavy duty equipment. Whites expected to strike gold their first time mining. But of course, they didn't know how to find gold itself they knew much less about mining. So foreigners actually stayed and taught whites how to mine properly.…
Louis, Missouri in order to cross the Missouri River to get to Independence. The boat journey would take up to five or eight days and was considered the easiest part of the westward journey. 200 miles from St. Louis the emigrants headed west and unloaded their wagons, livestock, and dreams from the steamboats and began the great journey overland. The Trail began in the city of Independence, Missouri which also began to be known as one of the most popular “jumping off ” points in the trail where pioneers purchased and stocked various supplies on their wagons for their four to five month journey. The hopeful travelers collected information about their future trail, made either friends and/or enemies, and thought about their final destinations all while in Independence. The inexperienced travelers were afraid of Indian attacks on the way to Oregon which in turn encouraged them to make traveling parties in order for them not to head west alone, once a wagon “train” was assembled the travelers were ready to go. Those with mules and horses left Missouri first in front of the wagons and people walking on foot, only because the horses could feed on the short grasses along the prairies. Leaving Missouri was a chore since the pioneers had to make sure that they did not leave too early or their wagons would be bogged down by mud and there would not be any grass for their animals to eat, and if they left too late there would the chance that they would get trapped in a winter storm. Finally, the wagons full of people and the rest of the hundreds of pioneers on foot followed, on their journey 2,170 miles…
The journey towards the West was the path for American emigrants to search or move to new land. The trail that was used to move west became known as the Oregon Trail. The trail was over 2,000 miles long. The trail was more used during 1840-1860.Over 500,000 emigrants used the Oregon Trail. It took 4-6 months to travel the trail.…
Rivers were hard to cross and the weather didn’t help either. The biggest problem however, was a disease called Cholera which claimed the lives of many travelers, averaging one grave every 80 yards along the trail (Tindall, Shi 503). Along the way however, they still adopted the same lifestyle as they had back in the east. The women took the chores of being a housewife doing things such as cooking, cleaning, taking care of their children while the men took the jobs of steering the wagon, taking care of the animals and doing heavy labor (Tindall, Shi 503). It was the demands of the Oregon Trail that started to test the travelers with new tasks. Women were then starting to do things such as gathering buffalo dung as fuel, pitching in help to get wagons out of the mud, and etc., mostly things that were very “unladylike” back in the day (Tindall, Shi 503). At the end of the trail, many of the settlers went about their own ways and started to establish stable communities (Tindall, Shi 503). The Oregon Trail played an important part in American history because it was the first path to western land. This route enabled the United States to fulfill its idea of Manifest Destiny, which was the expansion of United States territory from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Lands in which the trail went through eventually became six of the U.S. States including Missouri, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, Kansas and Nebraska (Wikipedia). It also led settlers into land that would also become U.S. territory including California, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Washington and Montana. If it wasn’t for the Oregon Trail, the U.S. may have never fulfilled the idea of Manifest Destiny and much of the west would probably still be unknown.…