In the early 1800s, Americans pushed steadily westward, movingeven beyond the territory of the United States. How did they traveled?
They traveled bycanoe and flatboat, on horseback, and by wagon train. Some evenwalked much of the way.
This practice helped make the fur trademore profitable.
fur traders and trappers
The membersof Joseph Smith’s church
an abandonedmission near San Antonio that became animportant battle site in the Texas Revolution.
manifest destiny, orobvious fate, to settle land all the way to the Pacific Ocean in orderto spread democracy.