Our Seven Month Ordeal

1840 vs. 2010

Conestoga Wagon Modern RV

It’s 1848. Guess which one we took?

Venn DiagramFormative Assessment

Westward Migration

Travelling in the 1840s

Travelling Now

Similarities

Jumping off city: SuppliesWagons WaitingCongestionOver-packing

Get Ready

Presentation Photo Fun Fact Uses for buffalo dung

1. Fuel for burning2. “Frisbees”

Source: Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier by Joanna Stratton

Population growth in the eastern statesEconomic opportunityCheap and fertile landReligious freedomManifest Destiny: the idea that expansion was

for the good of the country and was the right of the country.

Why They Went

Overland Trails

In each group of travelers there was often at least one member who could play the fiddle. Here is an example of music of the 1850s.

This is a song titled Nelly Bly by Stephen Foster. The pioneers would dance if they had the energy after a long day of walking.

Music of the Pioneers

Our Reenactment

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/frontierhouse/resources/lp2.html

http://theomahaproject.orghttp://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/arti

cle_display.cfm?HHID=308http://www.awesomestories.com/history/go-w

est/story-prefacehttp://www.wolfkiller.net/California1840/index

.htm

Sources