Early Pioneers Flashcards
What is the rendezvous?
Yearly meeting
Mountain men sell to merchants
News of land spread to the east
What where the push factors of pioneers to the west?
Poverty Disease Tax Overpopulation Religious persecution
What were the pull factors for travellers to the west?
New start News Cheap land Gold/silver Government encouragement
What was a praire schooner?
To traveller west Made themselves Thick canvas Waterproofed Pulled by oxen
What was the journey across the plains like?
2,000 miles
5 months to cross
Rivers and mountains
Lack of experience and discipline caused delays
What happened to the Sagars?
Over turned wagons Broken bones Stampedes Indians Camp fever
What happened to the donner party?
Short cut didn’t work
Stuck in snow
50/87 survived and lots were
Had to eat dead people
Who were the forty niners?
The gold miners
When was gold discovered in California?
January 1848- California
What were the conditions like when the miners arrived?
No sites left 3 dollars a days Live in Shacks Disease Salons
What was a consequence of the forty niners?
Mining towns begin to develop
What was law and order in the mining towns like?
No US government
Drinking is common
People stole land
Explain manifest destiny
Christian belief that God has given then the right and their destiny is to occupy the land and civilise the continent
What did the mountain men do?
Catch animals for fur
1/2 married Indian women
Some became savages
