Primary Sources - Narratives

Primary Sources - Narratives
Sean Davis

Create another blog post that summarizes what you learned, identifies your source, and links to it. frontier, western expansion, homesteaders, settlers, emigrants, pioneers

https://icss.uni.edu/timeline/5narrative.html

http://www.historynet.com/westward-expansion

Learned from these Narratives

• journey for the frontier all land east of Mississippi

• started in 1803 when President Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory

• Oregon Trail was the most common way to travel west

• most practical way to move across the mountains

• exceptionally difficult

• started in 1843

• lasted 25 years

• false believe that native Americans were biggest threat

• real enemies included cholera (A bacterial disease causing severe diarrhea and dehydration, usually spread in water.) poor sanitation, and accidental gunshots

• problems

• runaway horses, stamped Cattle, prairie fires, blizzards, heat, sunstroke, Indians, lice, snakes, loneliness

• Pony Express
• lasted 1860 to 1861

• fasted mail delivery system between Missouri and California

• fasted before the telegraph

• Transcontinental railroad

• After California was granted statehood, it relied on making this railroad

• went from Sacramento to Omaha