I believe that Kansas got put on the map because Mariwether Lewis and William Clark traveled through the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean. They wanted to see if it would be a good trade route. Lewis and Clark came back and talked about how lush, hilly, and beautiful Kansas was. So when other explorers heard about this, they went to see it and everyone started knowing about Kansas. The United States also doubled in size, because Kansas became a state. They also used the US government to expand. Manifest Destiny is where many politicians may believe that it was the destiny of the United States, to span from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. Millions of ordinary Americans used to believe that their better opportunities lay in the west, that
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(pg.90) The main purpose of the Oregon-California trail was to move people. This trail took its name from the places it took people that traveled on it after it reached Fort Bridger, which is now called southern Wyoming. When the settlers took this trail they could continue west to California or could head northwest to Oregon. Most of the people that traveled to California, went farmland and had a chance to get rich in the gold fields. Starting in the 1830’s, the only way to get through the West Mountain Range was to go through the Oregon-California Trail. (pg.87) In the Kansas-Nebraska Act some of the southern states had blocked most attempts to allow settlement into the Louisiana Territory. A man named Stephen A. Douglas knew that he needed to offer something in return for the southern states to organize the West lands of Missouri. Douglas presumed that he could have gained some cooperation with the South, if he said that he was going to let the people of a new territory decide the fate of slavery in that new territory. That was called popular sovereignty, which meant that people who had lived in the territories could choose the issue of the slavery
(pg.90) The main purpose of the Oregon-California trail was to move people. This trail took its name from the places it took people that traveled on it after it reached Fort Bridger, which is now called southern Wyoming. When the settlers took this trail they could continue west to California or could head northwest to Oregon. Most of the people that traveled to California, went farmland and had a chance to get rich in the gold fields. Starting in the 1830’s, the only way to get through the West Mountain Range was to go through the Oregon-California Trail. (pg.87) In the Kansas-Nebraska Act some of the southern states had blocked most attempts to allow settlement into the Louisiana Territory. A man named Stephen A. Douglas knew that he needed to offer something in return for the southern states to organize the West lands of Missouri. Douglas presumed that he could have gained some cooperation with the South, if he said that he was going to let the people of a new territory decide the fate of slavery in that new territory. That was called popular sovereignty, which meant that people who had lived in the territories could choose the issue of the slavery