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Mind Map by James McConnell, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by James McConnell
almost 11 years ago
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American West: Going West
- Mountain Men
- Trapped animals for their fur
- Made a living by trading furs at forts
- Made a living by trading furs at forts
- Explored the Plains extensively
- First explorers to go to the West
- Fertile and rich lands
- Freedom and Independence
- Space
- Furs & Fish
- In the East...
- Overpopulation
- Unemployment
- Unemployment
- Collapse of banking
- Persecution
- Overpopulation
- Fertile and rich lands
- First explorers to go to the West
- Gave advice to travellers and
Government explorers
- They worked with Indians, often marrying Indian women
- Trapped animals for their fur
- Manifest Destiny
- The belief that God wished white men
would control the entire continent
- Originated from a newspaper article
by John O'Sullivan in 1845
- Now considered a racist
viewpoint
- Indians were 'inferior' to whites
- Indians were not Christians
- Indians had not discovered writing, or the wheel
- Indians were not Christians
- Indians were 'inferior' to whites
- The belief that God wished white men
would control the entire continent
- Wagon Trails
- Early Settlers
1843
- Disturbed the buffalo
- Crossed land that Indians
claimed to own
- Only intended on moving West
- California
- Oregon
- California
- Disturbed the buffalo
- Problems
- 3, 800km to travel
- Tough terrain including the
Rocky Mountains
- No maps or landmarks
- Dangers
- Lots of disease (e.g. cholera)
- Buffalo stampedes
- 34,000 died
- Lots of disease (e.g. cholera)
- 3, 800km to travel
- The Wagons
- FOOD: Had to carry enough for the entire journey,
and 18 months after, before crops could be harvested
- WEAPONS: Some carried guns to defend
against buffalo and Indian attacks
- MONEY: A short supply for
trading at forts along the way
- TOOLS: For fixing the wagon and setting
up housing on arrival in the West
- FOOD: Had to carry enough for the entire journey,
and 18 months after, before crops could be harvested
- Early Settlers
1843
- The Gold Rush
- Gold was discovered in California in 1848
- Forty-niners
- Planned to return home (East USA or Europe)
after making their fortune
- Panned for gold in rivers, digging down
a few metres
- Set up shanty towns of tents and small cabins
- Violence and crime was very high, rivals
- Few succeeded in dreams of wealth
- Few could even afford to go home
- Planned to return home (East USA or Europe)
after making their fortune
- Proffessional miners
- Mined deep underground
- Took their whole family with them
- Were backed by
businessmen in the East
- Mined deep underground
- Gold was discovered in California in 1848
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