westward expansion
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- Mountain Man in Oregon Country
- The lives of mountain men in the American West were ones of scarcity, poverty, and bare sustenance
- trappers who were lured west by the profits of the fur trade
- Oregon Trail
- just a little more road
- Manifest Destiny
- t told them it was all right to fight, kill, and take land from Mexicans or other non-Americans.
- trappers who were lured west by the profits of the fur trade
- Mexican-American War
- The Oregon Trail was a roughly 2,000-mile route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon
- Mormons in Utah
- Utah is home to more than 2 million Mormons
- Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, is the idea that the United States is destined—by God, its advocates believed—to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.
- California Gold Rush
- hurry there gold in them thar hill
- the largest mass migration in u.s history
- The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) marked the first U.S. armed conflict chiefly fought on foreign soil
- man up
- Utah Mormons (as well as Mormons living in the Intermountain West) are on average more culturally and/or politically conservative
- This Is the perfect place to build salt lake city
- the rapid influx of fortune seekers in California that began after gold was found at Sutter's Mill in early 1848 and reached its peak in 1852
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