When the great explores travel to find new land

Today Sacajawea represents all the female explorers. Also she also represents all the people that went West in 1840. When they left for California from Independence Missouri, Settlers formed wagon trains for there was safety in the numbers. In Missouri there were many hazards such as diseases, starvation, and cold weather. The number of deaths rose dramatically; however, Indian attacks were rare. Pioneer women helped civilize the West. They started Tamil schools, churches, and did other public things. In the 1920, women were given the right to vote.

Lewis and Clark's exploration inspired an old trade and aid slowly peter it out in the East for trapping or mountain men prefer trade began to flourish in United States, they mainly looked for trappers. Natives Indians woven clothing, they also carried spares disease in accidents . Mountain men mainly spent time selling furs for other things. Mountain men lived a very unhealthy lifestyle these men popularized the Oregon and California's trails and paved the way west for all the settlers to come.

Father Junipero Serra headed north into the area where the State of California would be later on in history there he began setting up missions from San Diego to Sonoma. The goal was to convert Indians from a pagan religion that each tribe had that was different for each tribe to Christianity generally based in work rant shows are about 50,000 or more acres of land in 1821 California became Mexico part of Mexico and in 1833 dimensions are shut down in 1803 the top export is cattle related items in 1846 the Mexican-American war begins causing California to be captured it then became the first western state.

There were lots of explorers in this time. Around 1804 the most famous explores Lewis and Clark and their slaves. Thomas Jefferson order them to find the Northwest passage. Thomas Jefferson's did not believe in the northwest Passage.Lewis and Clark did a great discovery and they contributed a lot to American history it was hard going traveling up the Missouri River. When they reached Indian country the Indians were fascinated with Lewis and Clark and his people of slaves, Clark and his slaves thought help them by painted black and constantly with wet fingers tried to rub the paint off. As they started west in 1805 they had to give up their canoes and hike on foot. A while later they met a trapper and his wife who was only 16 years old and was carrying a baby on her back she was Native American. The trapper and his wife agreed to join them on a journey. The trapper's wife was named Sacagawea. Sacagawea led Lewis and Clark to Shoshone lands where she learned that her brother was now chief he graciously gave them forces for without this Lewis and Clark would never have discovered Oregon and made it from coast to coast and back again.