WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hoping to cash in on consumer demand, trappers headed to the mountains and streams of the West. These mountain men provided the United States with a source of commerce as they connected the young republic to the lucrative international fur trade.
Detailed explanation-2: -Most mountain men were both adventurous and practical; they came to the wilderness to turn a profit. This desire to make a living and their amazing ability to survive in the wilderness made them ideal trappers during the fur heyday and kept them in the mountains long after the beaver were gone.
Detailed explanation-3: -The mountain men were the pioneers of the Rocky Mountains, who came first as fur trappers, lured to the West by beavers and later by the buffalo. With virgin streams producing the prize catches, there was a reward for trail blazing; trappers thus became the explorers of the far west.