Essay On The Oregon Trail

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The Oregon Trail: Some reasons why the Pioneers decided to go along the Oregon trail and head west were to find opportunity, have free land, good farmland, large forests, free of diseases, and to find jobs. What was the Oregon trail like? - Many diseases like typhoid fever, Cholera, dysentery, Diphtheria, and measles. - They traveled 15 miles on a average day and 18-20 on a good day. - Many pioneers walked the entire 2,170 mile trail on foot while others used wagons. - Some of the weather the settlers experienced was thunderstorms, lightning, hail, and also golfball sized hail that killed many people. - In the wagon they carried cooking utensils, clothing, food, bedding, tent supplies, tools, and weaponry. To get from Independence Missouri to …show more content…

had a God given mission to spread its civilization by conquest to the entire western hemisphere no matter who it harmed. The reasons for Manifest Destiny: - Technology like the telegraph, steamships, and railroads liked far distant places like Oregon and California that had seemed to remote. - Belief that the democracy must continue to grow in order to survive and a desire to expand the benefits of Americans. - Southerners were anxious to acquire new lands for additional slave states. - A need to develop new markets made the acquisition of the pacific ports of priority. Treaties Adams-Onis Treaty was a treaty between the U.S. and Spain that ceded Florida to the U.S. and defined the boundary between the U.S. and New Spain. We also promised to not touch Texas. Don Luis de Onis signed the Adams-Onis Treaty. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo Officially entitled the treaty of peace, friendship, limits, and settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic. The U.S. pledged to protect the rights of Mexicans living in the newly acquired areas who could choose to become citizens of either nation. Indians were not granted these