Outline Question: What did the pioneers on the Oregon Trail face and what history was made and is still known today? Thesis: The Oregon Trail was not an easy trip. The pioneers faced many problems along the way such as Cholera and dysentery. The Native Americans did not make the trip and easier for them either. Introduction A) Over 300‚000 immigrants attempted to travel the route of the Oregon Trail‚ and only approximately 140‚00 made it to the other side. The trip across the
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travelers‚ averaging one grave every 80 yards along the trail (Tindall‚ Shi 503). Along the way however‚ they still adopted the same lifestyle as they had back in the east. The women took the chores of being a housewife doing things such as cooking‚ cleaning‚ taking care of their children while the men took the jobs of steering the wagon‚ taking care of the animals and doing heavy labor (Tindall‚ Shi 503). It was the demands of the Oregon Trail that started to test the travelers with new tasks. Women
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The Legacy of the Oregon Trail The actual journey was not what Jesse Fremont had stated however. The trail was used beginning with the fur-traders and explorers who used it in the early 1820s and ended when the Transcontinental Railroad was completed in 1869. Most of the travelers were settlers who went through the paths of Independence‚ Missouri ending in Oregon’s Willamette Valley (Tindall‚ Shi 502). They were hoping to find new opportunities in the west and had started the trip with high hopes
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The Oregon Trail is a 2‚000 mile route for large wagons. The trail began by fur trappers and traders from 1811 to 1840. The only way you could pass was by foot or on a horse. By the 1846-1869 the trail was used by about 400‚000 settlers‚ ranchers‚ farmers‚ miners‚ and businessmen and their families. William Clark founded the path but it wasn’t discovered until 1859 that they could actually walk the path that connected the Missouri River to the Columbia River. The West part of the trail connected
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Have you ever gone somewhere where no one has before? Thankfully the people that left their family’s to go find new land did because America wouldn’t be America as we know it now. The Oregon trail was part of the trails out west which is when people would travel to start a new life. Family’s would travel the trails with many dangers on the journey just hoping that they find good land. "The road to-day was very hilly and rough. At night we encamped within one mile of Fort Hall. Mosquitoes were as
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Oregon Trail was a route of wagon trains bringing settlers from all over the united sates to the Oregon or California in 1840 to 1860s. It is one of the most important events in the history of the United States. Unlike other trails like Santa Fe Trail‚ most of the pioneers in Oregon Trail were settlers rather than traders. Pioneers usually travelled in family groups rather than individually (The Overland Trail‚ page no. 503). The trail was the only appropriate route to get to the west coast. It
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Roles of Women on the Oregon Trail Part I: What I know Women didn’t have it very easy on the Oregon Trial. They had many chores/jobs they had to get done. And those jobs were no walk in the park. They were hard‚ laborious‚ and dirty jobs. They were also often “handed” these jobs. Women were often taken granted for. In the men’s minds‚ they were trivial‚ but that was far from true. If women hadn’t gone on the Oregon Trail‚ it probably wouldn’t have gotten that far. Women and girls play a big
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The Oregon Tail was a way for many settlers to travel west. The settlers face many hardships throughout the journey. Some of the harshened they faced were disease‚ injury‚ and much more. While going through the plains‚ storms were very dangerous. Many of the deaths were even because the settlers fell out of the wagons and were crushed by the wheels and axles. When settlers were infected with disease‚ the cause could have been dirty water and/or milk from a cow that ate poisonous weeds. Back when
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The Oregon Trail is a well known event that happened in our history. However many people are unaware of the events that really happened along the way to Oregon‚ and what people had to go through in order to reach their destination in the West. Marcus Whitman was born in 1802 in Rushville‚ New York‚ he received his medical degree from the college in Fairfield‚ New York in 1832. For four years he practiced medicine in Canada until he returned back to New York to become a missionary member of the Presbyterian
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The Oregon Trail was an overland route used by migrants to travel from the East to the West all the way to the Oregon territory. Which included‚ Oregon‚ Washington‚ Idaho‚ and parts of Western Montana and Wyoming. This trail ran 2‚000 miles and more than 50‚000 people used the trail between 1841 and 1860s. At the early 1800s‚ the United States began the westward expansion beyond the Mississippi River‚ which was controlled by France‚ Spain‚ and Britain. Today the trail is a designated a National
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