Key Question 2: Migration West

Key Question 2: Migration West

Manifest Destiny

• God given right/duty to fill the whole continent with white people loyal to the usa and take 'civilisation' and christanity to dominate the land and Indians
• Buffalo and Indians forced away 
• Wagons, trains, boats to transport
• Farming land- making it their own 

Pioneers

• The first large group to cross the continental and settle in the west
• faced a journey of 3000km across 
• trialed by the mountain men-very first knew the trails

Trappers/Mountain men

• Furhats fashion in paris and the rocky mountains were home to beavers and other animals that would provide the fur
• Furtrappers caught them for…