Please enjoy this video about The Oregon Trail and Westward Expansion. You can start and stop it as you make your own brain tracks on paper. Then, please share your new learning. I know you will have a lot of BK in this video, but try to focus on new learning.
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Independence, Missori was the starting point for the Oregon Trail. Wagons were called prairie schooners. The most distance they would cover in one day. was 15 mi. In the span of 25 years nearly half a million people ended up settling in the west.
ReplyDeleteHi! Here are a few of my new facts: At first, the Americans thought that the Western Plains were like a desert. Explorers and missionaries, like Lewis and Clark, set off to find a path across mountains to the west. When the pioneers started heading West, it changed the American landscape. Independence, MO. was the starting point of the Oregon Trail. The wagons were called 'Prairie Scooners. I'm not sure if thats right or not, but it's what I heard. Women and children had to walk every day, from dawn until dusk! A few years after they arrived, small towns started turning into cities. Bye! 3- P ROCKS! :)
ReplyDeleteI learned watching this video this. Explorers and mishonaries spread out to find a path to the west. Many people that traveled west were farmers dreaming of a new life and cheep land. Others search for religious freedom. It was important to start traveling at the right of the year. They changed the american landscape for ever. Also every spring pioneer would gather 1,000's in independent Missouri.
ReplyDeleteHi! The video was cool! I gained a few new facts: Over a hundred wagon had left. The wagons were called prairie schooners. They would only get 1 mile on a bad day. I also have a questions: I know about the homestead act but why didn't the Pioneers make more people stay back. Adios! (in spanish its goodbye) 3-P ROCKS!
ReplyDeleteIndependence, Missouri was the starting point of the Oregon trail. The end was Oregon City, Oregon. On good day they gained 15 miles. On a bad they 5 or under. The trail was 2,000 miles long. One of the most deadliest disease's on the trail was Cholera. Wagons were called prairie scooners. There a college that relates to that Oklahoma Sooners because on the flag they show a picture of a wagon. Bye! 3-P ROCKS! :)
ReplyDeleteThe video was awesome! I have a couple of things for you today. Number one, the pioneers believe there is something called the manufest destiny. Number two, how did they send letters home? Number three, in early 1840s thousands of pioneers left home. Every year everybody gathered is Independence, Missouri. Lots of people were farmers who dreamed of having great land. Other looked for fortune. It was very important to leave at the right time. The wagons were sometimes called prairie scooner's. Men usually road on a horse to look after the cattle. Bye! See you tomorrow!
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DeleteWOW the disease killed a lot of people.I know that not much people knew what
ReplyDeletelade behind the Mississippi.I did not know that the pioneers thought that the plans were desert.
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We already know a lot about pioneers and Native Americans. These are just a few of those facts. On a good day, pioneers would travel up to 15 miles. On a bad day, sometimes only 1 mile. Also, half a million people were counted that had traveled and settled west.
ReplyDeleteHi! Here are some of the facts I learned: Only Native Americans lived their because the Americans thought it was a giant desert and was too wild to live, A group of wagons was called a train, There were about 100 wagons in a train and the wagons were called "Prairie Schooners". See you tomorrow! :)
ReplyDeleteIt took nine years to build the transcontental railroad.They wanted to get to Oregon before the British did. The transcontenental railroad was completed in 1869 two different groups were working on it the Union Pacific from the West and The Southern Pacific from the East and they met in the middle and hammered in the golden spike to complete it. That was a intersting video, I liked it.
ReplyDeleteI learned that the pioneers thought America should stretch from ocean to ocean. In the early 1840s, 1000 of the pioneers started to go West. It took 25 years for people to settle in the West.
ReplyDeleteI learned a lot from this video. First, every spring pioneers would gather in Independence, Missouri. The pioneers needed to start their journey at the right time. Many of the pioneers were farmers. They brought over 100 wagons for their journey. Men rode on horse back looking after the cattle. Women and children walked along the trail. It was hard for Native Americans because pioneers killed too many buffalo. Many pioneers were killed from diseases. They left in early May or April. They wanted to get there before the snow got there. They sent explores out to find a trail. It was hard to cross the rivers and many people died trying.
ReplyDeleteHere is some BK about the Oregon Trail. By the early 1820's thousand's of pioneers had left their homes to start a new life. Many travelers of the Oregon Trail where farmers looking for new cheeper land to farm on. And Here is some NL. If they leafed to early their would be no grass for the cattle to eat.
ReplyDeleteI learned that some people thought that the western plains were like deserts and too wild to ever live there.
ReplyDeleteI wondered why they ever left to go to Oregon? This is a WOW- the native americans helped the pioneers and there also were doctors on the trail.
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