Transcript Life on the Overland Trail PowerPoint

Life on the Overland Trail
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Let’s Go West Aboard A Wagon Train
Review
• How many miles did they they travel to reach
Oregon?
• How many miles did they travel a day?
• What were the major hazards that the pioneers
faced during their journey west?
• 1 out of _____ died enroute
Let’s Go West Aboard a Wagon Train
Review – cont.
• What were the 3 major jumping-off spots?
• Where did the majority of the pioneers come
from?
The Overland Trail
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Why did they go West?
• Prolonged period of hard times – Panic of 1837
• Propaganda
• Free Land
• Mild Climate
Later:
• Gold
• Religious Persecution – Mormons
Oregon Trail
• Over 300,000 traveled West between 1840–1870
• First covered wagon that completed trip to
Oregon was in 1836 – Marcus and Narcissa
Whitman
• By 1843 “Great Migration West” began
– Ended in 1869 when Transcontinental railroad was
completed
The most common means of transportation:
Conestoga Wagon
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Photograph of actual covered wagon
probably used during Civil War
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The Overland Trail
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Jumping-off spots
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Missouri River
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Crossing the Platte River
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Chimney Rock, Nebraska, a prominent
landmark on the Oregon, California, and
Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trails
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Church Butte on the Oregon - Mormon
Trail near Ft. Bridger
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Rocky Mountains
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The City of Rocks in Southwestern Idaho
where the California and Salt Lake Trails
joined
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Forty-Mile Desert – California
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End of the Trail
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From the images of the trails that
you have seen, why would
accidents be the number one
cause of death on the trail?
Considering that 1 out of 10
pioneers died along the trail, why
did they continue to travel west in
such large numbers?