3. What is the Oregon Trail?

6. Manifest Destiny “Elbow Room”
Title: American Progress
Date: c.1873
Manifest Destiny was considered to be the American’s right to move west and conquer the land.

7. What did westward expansion mean for settlers?

8. What did westward expansion mean for settlers?
Free Farmland
Gold
Adventure
Better Health
Escape Problems
Fresh Start
Why did the Sager’s move West?

9. Emigrant

10. Covered Wagon

11. Wagon Train

12. Oxen

13. “Camp Fever”
Camp Fever was most likely Cholera. Cholera was the number one killer when traveling the Oregon Trail. It is a bacteria that attacks the intestines and is spread through contaminated food and water.

14. Manifest Destiny

15. Cayuse Chiefs Tiloukaikt and Tomahas
What connection did these two chiefs have to the Whitman Mission?

16. Whitman Mission
How were Chiefs Tiloukaikt and Tomahas similar and different to other Cayuse?

17. Cayuse—American Indian Tribe

18. Nez Perce—American Indian Tribe

19. Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph was given the name Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, or Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain, but was widely known as Joseph, or Joseph the Younger, because his father had taken the Christian name Joseph when he was baptized at the Lapwai mission by Henry Spalding in 1838.

20. What did westward expansion mean for American Indians?