Men, we musn't surrender to the weather, we must get these beaver furs to a dry location!
Yes Sir!
The Oregon Trail
We took a detour on the Oregon trail and now we're stuck and our oxen and families have fallen ill!
Manifest Destiny
The paper darling, says something about "manifesting destony"
Whats this?
After explorers, Lewis and Clark paved out the west for American trappers and quickly followed behind to find new furs and trade. there were many beavers along the west that had been almost hunted to extinction due to their high value. Trappers along the west sold these beaver furs and made a good fortune.
Mexican-American war
KEEP MOVING MEN WE HAVE TO GET TO CAMP.
The Oregon Trail was a path to the region west of the rocky mountains, which is now modern-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and western Canada. even though the land was claimed by Britain, Native Americans, and America, many American settlers ignored the territories. The cartoon above shows a family who took a detour and ended up being trapped in a snowstorm and had to eat each other.
Mormons in Utah
Manifest (clear) destiny(something sure to happen) is the idea that the United States is destined by God to expand its territory and spread its democracy across North America. It was used to justify white superiority against Mexicans and native Americans.
California gold rush
OH MY LORD! GOLD SWEET SWEET GOLD!
The Mexican-American war started with the conflict over texas being annexed to America. After this Mexico was extremely angry because they felt Texas was still a part of Mexico. After tensions grew higher, America took action by seizing most of modern-day western America after Mexico refused America's offer to buy the land.
Once American settlers became more prominent in the west religious conflict grew between native Americans and non-mormons. Mormons took land from native Americans and had an ongoing conflict with non-Mormons and eventually pushed Mormons west.
We'll camp here tonight.
Soon after the war was over americans started to settle in California. There they found a gold mine which started a rush of settlers to California, kicking native people out to make room for new settlers.
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