By: Katherine Bierly, Subin Kim, Marissa Ward, Michelle Billy

 Spread liberty  Manifested Destiny

 Northern California to southern Alaska  Mountains, endless forests and fertile valleys

 Northern California to southern Alaska  Mountains, endless forests and fertile valleys

 Convert Native Americans to Christianity  Not successful

 Methodist minister  1834  built a mission school in Willamette Valley

First white woman to cross the Rocky Mountains

 1842, wagon trains carried masses of migrants to west  Town in western Missouri Independence.

 Four to six months  Paid $500 to $1,000

 A huge threat to pioneers  Killed 10,000 pioneers

 Began in independence.  Led to Santa Fe, New Mexico  Merchants started to use this trail in 1821 to take goods into Mexican territory.

 By 1845 more than 5,000 Americans had immigrated to Oregon.  A treaty made between United States and Britain to divide the Oregon Country along the forty- ninth parallel.

 Belief in having more than one wife  Salt Lake City, Utah  Farmers

 Mormon  New York