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Our Seven Month Ordeal

Our Seven Month Ordeal. 1840 vs. 2010. Conestoga Wagon. Modern RV. It’s 1848. Guess which one we took?. Formative Assessment. Venn Diagram. Get Ready. Jumping off city: Supplies Wagons Waiting Congestion Over-packing. Presentation Photo.

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Our Seven Month Ordeal

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  1. Our Seven Month Ordeal

  2. 1840 vs. 2010 Conestoga Wagon Modern RV It’s 1848. Guess which one we took?

  3. Formative Assessment Venn Diagram

  4. Get Ready • Jumping off city: • Supplies • Wagons • Waiting • Congestion • Over-packing

  5. Presentation Photo Uses for buffalo dung1. Fuel for burning 2. “Frisbees” • Fun Fact Source: Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier by Joanna Stratton

  6. Why They Went • Population growth in the eastern states • Economic opportunity • Cheap and fertile land • Religious freedom • Manifest Destiny: the idea that expansion was for the good of the country and was the right of the country.

  7. Overland Trails

  8. Music of the Pioneers • In each group of travelers there was often at least one member who could play the fiddle. Here is an example of music of the 1850s. • This is a song titled Nelly Bly by Stephen Foster. The pioneers would dance if they had the energy after a long day of walking.

  9. Our Reenactment

  10. Sources • http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/resources/lp2.html • http://theomahaproject.org • http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=308 • http://www.awesomestories.com/history/go-west/story-preface • http://www.wolfkiller.net/California1840/index.htm

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