MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
THE OREGON TRAIL WESTWARD MIGRATION TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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California sounds nicer.
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No, let’s stick with the Oregon Trail.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the summer of 1846, a party of 89 emigrants headed west along the 2, 170-mile-long Oregon Trail. Tired, hungry, and trailing behind schedule, they decided at Fort Bridger, Wyoming to travel to their final destination in California by shortcut.
Detailed explanation-2: -The California and Oregon Trails follow the same route until Idaho, where they diverge, the California Trail heading to California and the Oregon Trail turning north to Oregon.
Detailed explanation-3: -The north-south Oregon–to–California Trail was the main overland route for travel and shipment of goods between the two states during the nineteenth century.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Oregon Trail was a roughly 2, 000-mile route from Independence, Missouri, to Oregon City, Oregon, that was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west. The trail was arduous and snaked through Missouri and present-day Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho and finally into Oregon.