1. Goal: To identify the means and methods Americans expanded into the West To understand the impact migration had on the development of America

4. Early explorer of the West, fur trapper, guide, one of the “mountain men. 1824-Discovered the “South Pass” over and through the Rockies You Tube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrswYNDjBds http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrswYNDjBds

5. Indian Nations then and Now Indian Nations then and Now http://www.time.com/ time/specials/package s/0,28757,1997823,00.h tml http://www.time.com/ time/specials/package s/0,28757,1997823,00.h tml Source: Time Magazine’s Lewis and Clark bicentennial

6. Freed slave Mountain Man and fur trapper Lived with the Crow Served as an Army scout Gold Prospector Discovered route into Northern California that bears his name (see map at right)

9. Trade route from Independence, Missouri to Santa Fe distance of 780+ miles. Used primarily from 1821 to 1848.

12. Started in 1836 by Missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Followed some of Lewis and Clark’s journey, traveling from Independence, Missouri to Portland, Oregon, journey of over 2000 miles.

14. All American religion, created in US Mormons move from Ohio to Missouri & Illinois. Communitarian sect not popular Mormon militia arouses fear Polygamy unpopular 1844 Mormons flee Illinois after mobs murder Smith Brigham Young leads Mormons west to Utah, 1846-1847, est. frontier cooperative theocracy Conflict with federal govt. over polygamy, threatens fighting, over polygamy delays statehood to 1896

16. “When Joseph Smith was murdered by an anti-Mormon mob in 1844, Brigham Young was on the East Coast gathering converts and raising money for the construction of an enormous temple in Nauvoo. On his return, Young played a critical role in keeping the savagely persecuted church together by organizing the exodus that would take the Mormons westward, first to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, in 1846, and finally on to Utah's Salt Lake Valley, where Young and an advance party arrived on July 24, 1847. Here Young hoped the Mormons would at last find the freedom to worship and live as their faith decreed. Late in 1847 his leadership was confirmed when he was named president and prophet of the church, inheriting the authority of Joseph Smith.” http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/young.htm

17. http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/mopi/images/fig32.jpg http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/mopi/images/fig18.jpg