The Early Settlers

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  • The Early Settlers
    • Mountain Men
      • They went up into the mountains to get bear fur
      • Why did the fur trade end?
        • fur hats went out of fasion
      • What did they become?
        • Guides across the west
      • Why were they in the west?
        • Fur
          • Fur hats were fashionable in Paris and New York
        • Animal skins
      • Rendevous
        • Once a year they would trade their stuff and they would spend most of their money
        • 1825-1840
        • Buy useful things
        • Tell others about the land
        • Trade their years catch
      • Life of a mountain man
        • hard and dangerous
        • could freeze to death
    • The Donners
      • The Donners decided to take a supposed short cut called Hastings Cut off
        • The route was not a short cut
        • Difficult terrain
        • Got  trapped in winter snow
        • They ran out of food supplies
        • By the end many were dead and had become mad cannibals
        • Any dead people were cooked and eaten
    • The Miners
      • The role become very popular after gold was discovered in California in 1848.
      • The Gold Rush
        • 1849
        • Thousands traveled along the Oregon trail to get to the west.
        • Most men were unsuccessful
        • Consequences
          • Promoted the west as a place where people could make a success of there lives.
          • Farming in California grew.
          • The money helped pay for the first transitional railway
          • led to problems of law and order
          • The new migrants killed or enslaved Californian Indians
        • 100,000 people left the East to travel to California.
        • The gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada.
      • In 1848 thousands of miners headed west to make their fortune
      • The miners were nicknamed the forty-niners
    • Mormons
      • Joseph Smith started the mormans
      • Kirtland
        • They were a success
        • They built banks
        • All non-Mormans blamed them for collapse
        • The Mormans were chased out of Kirtland
      • Missouri
        • The local settlers rioted and destroyed property
        • Some o0f them were locked up
      • Nauvoo
        • tried to create an ideal societ with no ppor or homeless and no alchohol
        • started Polygamy
      • Salt Lake
        • Set up camps along their way for people to rest while they travelled there later on
        • Larger families recieved farms between 10 and 80 acres. Young crafts men-who had little to farm-only recieved 50 acres
        • Fresh water from the mountains was channelled from farm to famr
    • Why go west?
      • The Oregon Trail
      • Economic conditions in the West
      • Farmland in Oregon
      • Government  encouragement
      • The Gold Rush
        • 1849
        • Thousands traveled along the Oregon trail to get to the west.
        • Most men were unsuccessful
        • Consequences
          • Promoted the west as a place where people could make a success of there lives.
          • Farming in California grew.
          • The money helped pay for the first transitional railway
          • led to problems of law and order
          • The new migrants killed or enslaved Californian Indians
        • 100,000 people left the East to travel to California.
        • The gold was discovered in the Sierra Nevada.

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