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= = This is now the Oregon Trail Page Map of the trail: Topic: Oregon Trail

Focus: Trail

Reason for choice: This is what started the west

What's your point? (thesis): History Oregon Trail What three reasons do you have that will back up your point?

1 History

2 Who helped establish the trail

3 Terrain

What is your first reason and three to five facts to support it? The trail was first "travaled" by Louis and Clark, they said that there was no easy route west John Jacob Astor found a route to the west to the Snake River, which they then went down the river into the Columbia River to Fort Astoria. This was the established route of the Oregon Trail. The trail was not travaled on after the Transcontinental Railroad was compleated The interstate highway systems of I-26, I-80, and I-84 followed the Oregon Trail route

What is your second reason and three to five facts to support it? John Jacob Astor found a route to the west to the Snake River, which they then went down the river into the Columbia River to Fort Astoria. HBC (Hudson Bay Co.) York Factory Express made another route to the west The HBC made Fort Vancouver for fur trading, but it became the major place where people bought the supplies that they needed to start there home

What is your third reason and three to five facts to support it? The trail first started in Independence MO and crossed the Great Plains, or then called as The Great American Desert The trail then crossed the Rocky Mountains and went towards the Snake River The trail then ended in Oregon City

Based on your research, what conclusions would you make and how does your research connect to your life? The Oregon Trail helped shape the west and help the Transcontinental Railroad be built.

Ideas on how you are going to present? Involve the class? Be exciting? Interesting? Wow? Huh? Ahhh? Use the Smart Board and Google Maps to draw the trail and highlight some key areas and draw some 'good' pictures