Reasons to Move West!

Population growth in the eastern states caused people to move West

• True

• False

Land in the West was expensive and too rocky to grown crops

• True

• False

Economic opportunities included (pick four):

• gold

• logging

• farming

• freedom

• fishing

___________ and _________ transportation made it easier for people to travel West

• cheaper and faster

• slower and more expensive

• faster and the furious

• slower and cheaper

Two overland trails included:

• Oregon and Santa Fe Trails

• Santa Fe and Texas Trails

• Oregon and California Trails

• The Big Foot and Little Foot Trails

The idea that expansion was a good idea for the country

inspired people to go west for personal or economic reasons.

• manifest destiny

• destiny's child

• the Louisiana Purchase

• the westward manifesto