1. Good Morning Pass back tests Tape into your CB if you want to Fill out new TOC: – Unit Name : Expanding West 1.Notes 10.1 2.EQ Summary 10.1

2. How to draw a stagecoach video

3. 10.1 Trails to the West EQ: Why did so many people travel west in the 1800’s?

4. discuss Would you have chosen to leave your home in the east to travel west? Why?

5. Americans Move West How – canoes, flatboats, horseback, wagons, walking “The High Hat” – beaver hats, very popular, high demand for beaver fur John Jacob Astor – created American Fur Company Mountain Men – fur traders and trappers who lived in the mountains Rendezvous – meetings of buyers and sellers

6. Americans Move West (con’t) The Oregon Trail – 2000 miles from Independence, MO to Oregon Country California Trail – from MO to CA – Took 6 months – Cost $600 per family – Hardships = weather, shortages of supplies, Indians

7. Americans Move West (con’t) The Santa Fe Trail – from Independence, MO to Santa Fe, NM – Hardships = blazing heat, deserts, mountains

8. Mormons Travel West Members of Joseph Smith’s church – Latter Day Saints Moved to Utah for religious freedom