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What motivated early French explorers in thier travels to Kansas
To Trade
What 4 Famous explorers came though Kansas on journeys out west
Loois, Clark, Pike, and Long
What were some of the hardships that Native Americans forced to relocate to Kansas faced ( think new lnds and unfamiliar surroundings)
There homes and thier land
The Oregon-California Trail's primary purpose was to do what
move people
How did Mexico and the US respond to this common miconception
Helped the travelers
What motivated early Spanich explorers in the thier travels to Kansas
Riches
What did ewach explorer think of the land of Kansas
Loois and Clark thought that it looked like a desert.
Pike thought it looked like a desert to.
Long thought it looked like a forest.
What schools were used to try and "convert" Native Americans into refgular American men and women
bording shools
How long was the Oregon-California Trail
2,000 miles
Define MAnifest Destiny
The idea that America was meant to expand from coat to coast and was blessed by higher power
From what tribe did Kansas get its name
Kansa
What caused Americans to need more land and push out west to settle the land
the Americans liked what they saw in the land
Who is the man commonly known as the father of the Santa Fe Trail
William Becknell
How did most people make the trip
What did land represent to American people inthe 1800s
Oppertoonity and wealth
Native Americans who were removed from the East, were moved to what locations in Kansas
West
Some tribes chose to adopt American customs, clothesand trsditions what is this called
asimilate
What was the primary purpose for the Asnta Fe Trail
To trade goods
What cargo did travelers of the Oregon - Cakifornis=a Tral haveto prioritize in place of personal treasures
food and cloths
Why was land in the West so attractive to the American people
the oppertoonity
What did Coronado hope to find in Quivira? What did he Actually find
Gold, sand and sticks and mud houses
What is the name for the act used to remove Native Americans from the east and relocate them to the west
Westward expantion
Business minded people who took advantage of the expansion into the West were Called....
Enterpreneurs
What is a common misconception about interaction between Emigrants and Native Americans on the trail
the Native American Ataced the Travelers.
In the first half of the 1800s, how many Americans made the journey to the west
4 million.