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    Life of the Female Pioneer on the Oregon Trail University Of Phoenix HIS/110 August 25‚ 2012 Kim Murphy Life of the Female Pioneer on the Oregon Trail My life as a female pioneer taking the journey down the Oregon Trail was one of hardship and adventure. During the early 1800s settlers began to explore new territory in the New World looking for new opportunities. Through the pioneer journeys of Lewis and Clark a route through America was discovered that would take settlers to

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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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    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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    Social Studies Project Oregon Trail Many people went to the Oregon Territory to get free farm land. Some went hoping to find better health or better living conditions. Some went to escape problems. Others went for adventure and to seek new experiences. The Oregon Trail migration‚ also known as the Oregon-California Trail migration‚ is one of the most important events in American History. The Oregon-California trail was a 2‚170 mile route from Missouri to Oregon and California that enabled the

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    Western Oregon University SEVIS Transfer I-20 Request International students who are currently at another U.S. academic institution on an F-1 or J-1 student visa should use this form to notify their current school that they plan to transfer their SEVIS I-20 to Western Oregon University. Instructions: If you are currently an international student in the United States at another academic institution on an F-1 or J-1 visa (including going from an English language institute to an academic program)

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    life. Thousands of settlers travelled west in search of land‚ which‚ at the time of their travels‚ was the most valuable resource. Many pioneers risked everything they had to search for a more prosperous life. The pioneers that traveled along the Oregon Trail faced the most difficulty trying to survive and thrive in the West due to unpredictable weather‚ deadly diseases‚ and surrounding threats The pioneers had to survive through numerous different diseases throughout their travels. Many pioneers

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    each country has a certain image and a multifaceted structure. First studies on country image in the literature belong to the 1930s and 1940s (Katz and Braly‚ 1933; Klingberg‚ 1941). On those years‚ several researches were done on impacts of social psychological processes‚ economic‚ cultural and political events on country image. But in these years‚ national perceptions and prototypes are of particular importance (Katz and Braly‚ 1933; 1943; Klinberg‚1941). Nagashima (1970) considers country image

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    first person to use the term Manifest Destiny‚ the first time was to argue about the annexation of Texas and the second‚ when the term actually caught on‚ referred to the dispute about the border of Oregon Country with the British. The piece where he mentions Manifest Destiny‚ referring to Oregon Country‚ was in the New York Moring News on December 27‚ 1845. It is as follows‚ “And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence

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    owner. As soon as Polk was elected president he began to work toward the reannexation of Texas‚ the reoccupation of Oregon‚ and the seizure of California from Mexico. Each of these expansionist moves brought up more slavery issues and sectional strife that caused the American Civil War. The annexation of Texas‚ Polk first goal‚ was hated by the North because Texas would enter the country as a slave state. The addition of another slave state would bump the balance of political power in favor of the

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    During the 1830s and 1840s‚ American nationalism and westward expansion had merged into the widespread belief in manifest destiny. Proud of their victories and independence‚ many Americans thought of themselves as the forbearers of freedom. Americans took this idea and ran with it‚ making it their new profound slogan. Manifest Destiny asserted that expansion of the United States throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable; it not only influenced the idea of expanding land

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