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- 8:10 7. What does President Jefferson buy from Napolean? Louisiana Territory
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May 1804. 9:00
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- What are the names of the two men who set out to map the new territory? Lewis & Clark 9. What treacherous mountain range do these men have to cross? The Rockies
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- Who helps the expedition survive in the wilderness? Sacagawea
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- Lewis and Clark’s remarkable expedition discovers 300 species of wildlife
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transforming science and agriculture.
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America. East and West. 11:14 12. What animal becomes the west’s most valuable commodity? beaver
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October 1823. 12:25
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- Jedediah Smith is the greatest hunter of all. 24 years old. He walks up to 1
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000 miles in the Rockies each year. Traps 600 pelts in a season–three years’ pay back East. Smith is a devout Christian. . .He’s smart
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- What attacks Jed Smith? A grizzly bear
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- Jed Smith pushes on. This is the new character of America: Frontier grit
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rugged individualism
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May 1846.
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- Thousands of men
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women and children. Riding
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- True or False. The new pioneers heading West are mostly America’s poor.
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- Native Americans charge $10 for road and $100 for river crossings
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in modern money. But the greatest toll of all. . .Human lives. In all
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June 1846. 20:13
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- Who is the leader of the wagon train heading west? George Donner
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- What mountain must the group cross before they end their journey? The Sierra Nevada 21. George Donner makes a fateful decision– leading a splinter group off from the main party. He’s read one of the many new trail guidebooks
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showing a shortcut that claims to shave two weeks off the journey time.
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- But Donner’s information is wrong. In fact
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the “Shortcut” adds 100 miles to the journey. 22. What happens when the Donner party stops to repair a broken axle? It begins to snow
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Christmas 1846. 26:06
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- They eat their first human. Bodies are cut up
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flesh labeled
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