Resultado de búsqueda
20 de jul. de 2018 · Learn about the events, challenges, and opportunities that inspired and influenced American pioneers to move west. Explore FamilySearch records and collections to discover your pioneer ancestors and their stories.
15 de dic. de 2009 · Like Thomas Jefferson, many of these pioneers associated westward migration, land ownership and farming with freedom. In Europe, large numbers of factory workers formed a dependent and...
Westward Expansion. A significant push toward the west coast of North America began in the 1810s. It was intensified by the belief in manifest destiny, federally issued Indian removal acts, and economic promise. Pioneers traveled to Oregon and California using a network of trails leading west.
During the 1830s and ’40s the flood of pioneers poured unceasingly westward. Michigan, Arkansas, Wisconsin, and Iowa received most of them. A number of families even went as far as the Pacific coast, taking the Oregon Trail to areas in the Pacific Northwest .
Historian Louis Hacker shows how wasteful the first generation of pioneers was; they were too ignorant to cultivate the land properly and when the natural fertility of virgin land was used up, they sold out and moved west to try again.
Westward Expansion Trails. In the history of the American frontier, pioneers built overland trails throughout the 19th century, especially between 1640 and 1647 as an alternative to sea and railroad transport. These immigrants began to settle much of North America west of the Great Plains as part of the mass overland migrations of ...
