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
- Fur
- 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 Donners decided to take a supposed short cut called Hastings Cut off
- 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.
- Mountain Men
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