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The West: Expansions and Conquest (Oregon Trail (difficult journey (huger…
The West: Expansions and Conquest
Continental expansion
slavery issue sause western expansion
4.3 million move west
causes
more congress rep
sothern states increase western slaver for more rep
Industrialization and population growth
economic reasons
trappers farmers miners
religous reasons
mormons
The agricultural frontier
east is corwded and uncomfortable
less land
more compettition in south
out west the land is cheaper
The old northwest
flood of migrants to region after 1812
Upper midwest
mostly yankees transplants
reform
whig policies
shifting for subsistence to comercial
produced a lot of corn kept low prices for industrial workers
technology advances
the old south west
hundreds of white settlers move from SE to SW by 1850
high cotton prices
mostly yeomen farmers
The west: Tribal Lands
1840 more than 300,000 Natives west of mississippi
more 200 nations
farmers hunter gatherers
Us Gov wants all natives in designated areas
Pawnee pressured into singing treaty to give away land and move north
arrive on soux land and move back after attacked
Settlers already moved there and attacked again
soux powerful nation
mstered horeback ridings
practice with european guns
goal is not to wipe out native more about control of hunting grounds
not as suseptible to european diseases
feared by some
Fur traders
Some americans competition over west of missipi
Some americans created rendez-vous
make alot of moey
survivalists
isolated harsh life
high mortality
married native women
romantisized as total freedom
Trapped and exploited land and people
smallpox spead
killed lots of wild game
explore map out trails and paths between rockies and pacific
established mainland routes
Oregon Trail
late 1830s migration gets underway
protestant missionaries
arrive in oregon
make settlements
1842 first wagon party of overlanders leave missouri
wagon trails
difficult journey
huger diseas accidents
deplete buffalo supply
