703,+723+Pioneers+and+the+Oregon+Trail

Gregory Kruzel 723 Eric Tan 723 Nick Guo 723 Diana Aca 703 Joseph Chen 703 Jenny Sitnik 723 Polina rogova 703

===The Oregon Trail was located in Oregon when pioneers traveled west across North America to explore and settle the lands. The route was a wheeled wagon route from east to west. The Oregon Trail was 2,000 miles.===

===In 1843, the Great Migration, a party of one thousand pioneers, heads west from Independence, on the Oregon Trail, guided by Dr. Marcus Whitman. Forming a train of more than one hundred wagons, and trailing a herd of 5,000 cattle.===

Question 2 answer: The pioneers experienced conflicts with some native american tribes. The tribes didn't attack large wagon trains but they did attack people who got lost.

Rivers could drown people and valuable supplies. People could be crushed by wagons. Some Indians stole from the emigrants. There were violent altercations with the Indians.
//Deaths along the trail was a constant reminder that life// //could be taken at anytime//

 1. *Was it the west for this group? What did your group want from “The West?” The west for this group is the pioneers and the Oregon Trail. A thousand pioneers head West on the Oregon Trail. The first major wagon train to the northwest departs from Elm Grove, Missouri, on the Oregon Trail. Our group wanted land, opportunity, and gold. Starting in the 1840s thousands of American pioneers headed West. The reason why people did this was in hopes of finding a better life. The Oregon country had been opened to settlers after the War of 1812, which led to the great migration of 1843 and the Oregon Trail was the route they followed.