1. Bell Ringer: List the factors that you believe will contribute to the great divide within America during the 1800s.

2. LEQ: Why are Americans moving west during the 1800s?

3. Manifest Destiny
The idea that the nation had a God given right to all of North America.

4. Why Move West?
Land
Trees
Minerals
Indians to be saved

5. First major western trail
Santé Fe Trail
First major western trail
Independence, MO to Santé Fe (capital of Spanish New Mexico)

6. Independence, MO to Willamette Valley in Oregon
Oregon Trail
Independence, MO to Willamette Valley in Oregon
Used by Lewis and Clark

8. Brigham Young leads Mormons to Utah
Mormon Trail
Brigham Young leads Mormons to Utah

9. Gold Rush First found in northern CA
President Polk confirmed findings in State of Union Address
San francisco 49ers

10. Effects of Western Migration
The Oregon Treaty- 1844, setting boundary at 49th parallel

11. Two weeks to travel west for information
Pony Express
Two weeks to travel west for information
Took mail from station to station

13. Part 1: Journal Entry Map Reading
Page 298 American Trails West, Answer #1 & #2

14. Part 2:Journal Entry Living History
Imagine you and your family are making the journey west. You are following the Oregon Trail. In your journal entry you describe what daily life is like for your and your family members.
Questions to think about:
What types of food do you have available?
What dangers do you encounter?
Why are you going west?
What do you hope to achieve once you make it there?