WESTWARD
MOVEMENT
Oh Give Me a Home WebQuest
- Mr. Farkas & Mrs. Kemps
PRINT RESOURCES:
| Westward Expansion UXL (4 vols.) REF 978 PEN | Profiles in American History -Vol. 2 REF 973 MOS |
| Lewis & Clark: Voyage of Discovery REF 917.804 AMB | Complete American Presidents Sourcebook, Vol. 1 REF 973 MAT |
WEBSITES:
Westward Expansion - From the Constitutional Convention to the Civil War :
The Lewis and Clark Trail
http://www.lewisandclark.org/
The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation
honors the remarkable historic legacy of Lewis and Clark through
research, education, preservation, promotion, and coordination. Follow their
trail that lead to the Louisiana Purchase.
Mountain Men and the Fur Trade
http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/amm.html
This home page is an on-line research center devoted to the history, traditions, tools, and
mode of living, of the trappers, explorers, and traders known as the Mountain Men. It provides a history of the fur trade in the Rocky Mountain west with journals and pictures.
The Pony Express http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/pxpress.html
The Museum of the City of San Francisco provides information
on the founding of the Pony Express.
California's
Gold Rush Museum
http://www.museumca.org/goldrush/index.html
The Oakland Museum of California offers this wonderful site that tells the
untold stories of the Gold Rush. You may read first hand accounts of the
experiences of the 49ers and view art work form that time period.
Westward Expansion - From Reconstruction to 1900:
The Oregon Trail
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html
Read about the history of the trail, sites along the trail, and the pioneers who traveled along it.
The American West
http://www.americanwest.com/
This site covers everything related to the west -Native
Americans, cowboys, trails, immigration, outlaws and ghost towns.
West Web
http://scholar.library.csi.cuny.edu/westweb/fmain.html
A good source for information about the history of
the
American west.
The Age of Imperialism
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/toc.html
The history of the US during the late 19th and early 20th
century. Expansion of the US interests to Pacific and Latin America.