West Coast Trail

Westward Expansion  During the 1800’s, American citizens packed up and headed West to the new unknown  land of the United States of America. Western expansion was a great part of the growth of the  United States because it gave Americans new land to settle, expanded its economy, and made the  United States a world power. The desire to expand was described by newspaper editor John  O’Sullivan who wrote, it is America’s “Manifest Destiny to overspread and to possess the whole  of the continent”.  First of all

me the most because how the dream of moving west was bitter sweet. How tensions between Mexico and America arose and effects toward the civil war. Ever since The United States declared independence in 1776, we have strived to move further west and find new land and hopes of a better way of life. Moving west would not be easy due to substantial amounts of variables. Like territory that has already been claimed and Native Americans who have been pushed west. For now the United States has reached as far

Nunna dual Isunyi, the “Trail Where We Cried,” is what the Cherokees call one of the darkest chapters of American history (Pritzker). Despite the Native Americans adopting a great deal of white American customs and European-style economic practices, yet they were removed from their homelands and relocated to state reserves due to the ideology of manifest destiny and the insatiable American greed. The main victims were the Five “Civilized” Tribes: Choctaw, Seminole, Creek, Chickasaw, and Cherokee

The Tillamook State Forest is located in the Northwest part of Oregon. It stretches from the west side of the Coastal Mountain Range over to the North Coast. In all it is about 800 square miles with elevations from sea level to 3500 feet (Greenwald & Garty, n.d). In the Tillamook State Forest is also called the Tillamook Rainforest. This area is one of the wettest in the United States getting about 100 inches of rain year round, with the higher elevations getting snow during the winter. The

The Oregon Trail, was a pathway that led thousands of Americans in the east, through the continent to find more opportunity somewhere else. It was a long adventure, being 2,170 miles, add or take a little because people found shortcuts over the years. It was a dangerous journey, reaching from Independence, Missouri to Willamette Valley in Oregon, but it was also full of rivers, harsh deserts, and rough climate. Also, new diseases and wagon accidents ravaged the brave souls, around 400,000, making

stretch of land from coast to coast south of Canada. The need for the expansion of territory and the growing population also drove the Americans towards the West. Farmers, Native Americans, 49ers, cowboys travelled to the wild West in search of land, money, new life, or business opportunities, whereas the purpose for the Mormons moving West was mostly due to religions persecution in the North. Mormonism is a religion created by Joseph Smith on April 6, 1830(The Mormon Trail), its believers are referred

Therefore as the Oregon Trail became more popular and more people pushed west it brought an uprising of conflicts between pioneers and Native Americans. This interest in the west began with in 1803. Beginning the up rise of interest in the western land was started with the Louisiana Purchase. This occurred in the year 1803 with this Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark out to map the uncharted territory. The vast new land sparked an interest in people to

whose territory extended “from the Brisbane River to the Logan River, and West to Moggill Creek” (Robinson 1). During this period, the Study Area was covered in thick vegetation and free-flowing creeks, and was habitat to a diverse range of native animals and edible plants. Spreading out across the terrain, a series of trails were frequently used by the ‘Yagarabal’ people, connecting hunting grounds and camps. These trails were also walked by other groups from outside the region, when visiting for

Removal Act into law. The act was proposed by Jackson to kick Natives out of the desired farming land, and to send them West to undesired land. Andrew Jackson played the key role in the Indian Removal Act fighting for and enforcing the destruction of the Native American people, and also leading the expeditions against the rebelling tribes. The Indian Removal act ultimately led to the Trail of Tears, the forced migration of Native American tribes into unwanted lands. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was an

The Oregon trail was an important route in American history that had stretched over 2,100 miles from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon. The Oregon trail had served as the only practical land route for settlers to reach the west coast until the second-half of the nineteenth century when the First Transcontinental Railroad was completed on May 10, 1869, which offered a faster and safer route for people and cargo between the western United States and eastern United States. Yet, people had