Extra Credit Reading and Response

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Read and highlight this article about the fate of one of the underground railroad stops on Long Island and answer the questions on the bottom of the sheet.

What were the greatest challenges on The Oregon Trail?

Complete the webquest below by using the provided links to answer the questions.  Make sure your answers are complete, thorough and written in complete sentences.  Most questions will require answers of more than one sentence.  This assignment will be graded.

1.  How did the idea of manifest destiny encourage an appetite for expansion?

2.  What territories did the U.S. take in the mid-1800s?

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module.php?module_id=230



3.  How did the U.S. obtain parts of Oregon Country?
4. What role did fur traders and missionaries play in opening Oregon to settlers?
5.  Why was President Polk less excited about going to war with England over Oregon than he was about going to war with Mexico to gain Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California?

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module_pop_intro.php?module_id=230&reading_id=98

6.  Who were the mountain men?

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/module_pop_intro.php?module_id=230&reading_id=89

7.  Who were the early explorers in Oregon Country?
8.  What are the reasons they chose to make the trip?

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Discoverers.html


9.  What was it like to travel along the overland trails?
10.What are some challenges that they faced?
11. How did the relations between the American settlers and the Native Americans change over time?

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Allabout.html

 Read a diary or memoir about someone who took the Oregon Trail and settled west.
12. What is the difference between a diary and memoir and which is a more reliable historical source?
13.  What was the biggest challenge faced by the author of the primary source that your read?

http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/00.n.trailarchive.html