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Learning Targets. I Can…Define racism, stereotype, discrimination, manifest destiny, and 49ers I Can…Explain the effects of Manifest Destiny and the gold rush on native American and the Spanish People

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Learning Targets

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  1. Learning Targets • I Can…Define racism, stereotype, discrimination, manifest destiny, and 49ers • I Can…Explain the effects of Manifest Destiny and the gold rush on native American and the Spanish People • I Can…Summarize the conflict between American settlers and Native Mexicans in Texas and California • I Can…Explain how prejudice caused the movement of Mormons west • I Can…Compare and contrast the rights of white miners and those of the Chinese or freed slaves • I Can…Summarize the cultural conflicts caused by the influx of new settlers in California • I Can…Create a chart depicting life in California before and after the gold rush for the following groups: Free whites, Blacks, Chinese, and Spanish

  2. TRAILS WEST

  3. 1 MOUNTAIN MAN – a fur trader or trapper who lived in the West prior to regular settlement

  4. 2 JIM BECKWOURTH – former slave who became a mountain man, discovered a mountain pass into present day northern California

  5. JIM BECKWOURTH MOUNTAIN MAN

  6. 3 Mountain men were the first to set up trails through the mountains and map the territory

  7. 4 LAND SPECULATION – buying cheap land in hopes that it will become more valuable later

  8. 5 SANTA FE TRAIL – a trail which lead from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico Moved people and goods over a 800 mile route

  9. 6 OREGON TRAIL – commonly used trail that led from Independence, Missouri to Oregon Territory

  10. OREGON TRAIL – THE WAY WEST

  11. OREGON TRAIL – THE WAY WEST

  12. OREGON TRAIL

  13. 7 People went west to Oregon for cheap land in an area that was reportedly very rich for crops

  14. 8 WAGON TRAINS – groups of travelers on the trail who cooperate, makes it less dangerous, set up leaders and rules

  15. OREGON TRAIL RUTS - WYOMING

  16. 9 MORMONS – members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints

  17. 10 The Mormons moved west because of continued difficulties with members of other religions – they had moved from Illinois because of problems

  18. THE MORMON TRAIL

  19. THE MORMON TRAIL

  20. 11 BRIGHAM YOUNG- leader of the Mormons that led them west to start a new settlement

  21. BRIGHAM YOUNG LEADER OF THE MORMONS

  22. 12 The Mormons eventually settle in Utah Create Salt Lake City

  23. Quiz Time

  24. 1. People who bought land to re sell it later were known as ______________. • 2. Name one group of people who might travel to the West and why they would go? • 3. Name one of the three trails and describe where it started and where it finished. • 4. The religious group that moved from Illinois to the West were known as the_________. • 5. The leader of that religious group was ________.

  25. Answers • 1. Land speculators • 2. Farmers, merchants, Forty-Niners, Mormons, Mountain Men • 3. Oregon Trail - Independence to Oregon Territory Sante Fe – Independence to Sante Fe , New Mexico Mormon Trail- Illinois to Salt Lake City / California 4. The Mormons 5. Joseph Smith , Brigham Young

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