People moved out west and started new colonies, and the colonies expanded, thus the growth of the US rose.
The Oregon Trail created a connection between the east and west coasts. It also brought the furs, gold, and other Natural Resources only found in the west to the east coast.
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The Oregon Trail was a group of white americans of eurpean decent that voluntarly walked the trail. The Trail Of Tears was a trail foced to be taken by the Native Americans Both are hard, long and risky trails and they both travel westbund. ~ Sparkly Narwall <3 ~
The newly completed trans-continental railroad. The Oregon Trail ran from the Missouri River to the Oregon Territory and was used extensively by pioneers from 1841 to 1869. Midway in the trail, other trails split off to go to California.
The US and UK made no agreement concerning the Oregon Trail per se. The trail was a stretch of land that both the US and UK recognized to be inside of US territory and led from St. Louis, Missouri to the western edge of Montana Territory (now the State of Montana). The agreement that the UK and US made was with respect to the Oregon Territory. Moderation won out over calls for war and the 49th parallel was agreed to as the place of the divide, America getting all land south and the UK, all land north in the Oregon Treaty.
It was the starting point. The gateway to the west. The US ended at the banks of the Missouri River.
settlers wanted to stay close to the Missouri River.
Because of the Oregon Trail people were able to settle out west and lead the way for other settlers. Before the Oregon Trail no one lived out west and the only time it had been explored was on the Lewis and Clark expedition, and during that they stuck to the Columbia River and followed it to the Pacific and back, but had never wondered outside of that area. I am from Oregon and it is a big thing to us because I grew up on the Columbia River and use to swim in it during the summer. It allowed people opportunity to expand to the west.
The Oregon Territory became part of the United States in the 1840's just before the Civil War. The discovery of the Oregon Trail led to many wagon trains and settlers going to Oregon Territory.
One of the first trails into the West connected New England with land that is now Kentucky and Tennessee. A part of that trail, the National Road, is now known as US 40. The Oregon and the Mormon trail both went from St. Louis, Missouri to Fort Bridger, Wyoming. That this point the two trails split. The Mormon trail continued southwest to the Great Salt Lake. The Oregon trail continued northeast and over the Blue mountains into Oregon. The Santa Fe trail went along the Missouri River and into Colorado, from there it traveled Southwest to what is now New Mexico.