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13.1 TRAILS WESTWARD MANIFEST DESTINY • The belief that the United States was destined to stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. MOUNTAIN MEN AND THE RENDEZVOUS • Mountain men survived by being tough and resourceful • Individual trappers came to a prearranged site for a rendezvous with traders from the east • Trappers bought supplies from those traders and paid them in furs LURE OF THE WEST • Land Speculators: bought huge parcels of land in the hopes that they would increase in value • New Markets: manufacturers hoped that they could sell goods to the settlers OREGON FEVER • Oregon Trail- ran from Independence Missouri to the Oregon Territory • Amazing stories spread about Oregon • The sun always shone there • Wheat grew as tall as men • 2,000 mile journey SANTA FE TRAIL • Southern route across the continent • Led from Missouri to Santa Fe, NM THE MORMON TRAIL • Most pioneers went west in search of wealth • One group migrated for religious reasons • Joseph Smith had founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in upstate New York in 1830 • In 1844 an anti-Mormon mob in Illinois killed Smith • In 1847 about 1,600 Mormons followed part of the Oregon Trail to Utah. Led by Brigham Young. • Built dams and canals, settled the mountain desert areas of Utah, Idaho, Nevada