Today in class each student was split into a group that travelled west. Whether you were a gold miner, farmer, woman, native american, or railroad businessman, you left in search of something.
Which group were you a part of? Where did you travel to? Who did you travel with? How did you get there? What route did you take? What problems did you face? Why did you want to go where you were going? When you finally arrived at your destination, was it what you were expecting? What was it like?
What did you think of this experience in class today? Post to the blog... challenges and/or successes?
You will be presenting in class tomorrow in your group, so please come prepared.
21 comments:
my group was the Native Americans. We traveled from North Carolina to Oklahoma. All the Cherokee Indians traveled together on what they called "the trail of tears". They called it that because it was a disastrous walk. 4000 of the 15000 Cherokee Indians died on the trail. There was a lot of hunger and disease. We traveledup through North Carolina to through illinois south through missouri continuing to oklahoma. We didn't want to go we were forced out of our homes by the Indian Removal act. Which said that we had to give up all of our land in a certain point. I thought this was a great experience. I made me understand a lot more
- tessa
I learmned that the indians had moved west because Andrew Jackson had made a Indian Removal Act. They had picked up everything the could carry and kept on walking.
-kassie
I learned that many people had died. Cover 4000 ut of 1500 of the cherokees died. Andrews Jackson removal at had all the indians in North Carolina move to Olkahoma it was interesting to learn abpout the indains getting kicked out
Antonio
When we did our research on the women moving westward, we couldn't find much about it. The only things we were able to find was two of the many reasons they moved west. One reason was that many women in that time were teachers. Many people back then looked down at women and prevented them from going to school past grammer school because they thought that they were feeble minded and intellectually challenged. They thought that by moving west, they would be able to further enchance their teaching. The second reason was because they wanted to leave the fear of the specter of spinsterhood, which is being single and unmarried. It turned out that most women who moved west did get married. This caused a problem becuase by law, married women weren't allowed to teach...
Like Raymond said, we didn't find very much about woman moving west. Since we couldn't find much I will just say that woman probably had faced problems like men stopping them or blocking them from moving there for further education because people that that time believed that woman were too stupid to learn anything like blacks. I also agree with Raymond with the spinsterhood but, I thought it was quite strange that woman wanted to learn more and also get married because of that law.
I was in the Native Americans' group with Evan and Natalia. We were pushed off of our land by Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act. We were forced to travel west, which was known as the "Trail of Tears" because it was such a sad and dangerous road. Over four thousand Indians died on the long and hrrorous journey. This is yet more proof that people thought of Indians as useless savages, because many of them were beat and seperated from their families. Some problems that we faced were moving along even when we were tired and hungry, becasue we had to move on or we would surely get pushed and attacked the Americans forcing us to move. Like Tessa posted before, there were a lot of diseases that killed of some of the many Indians on the "Trail of Tears." This was such a sad thing in history.
I was in the group of native americans. Our group found info on te trail of tears. The native americans were kicked out of there land and there land had also been destroyed and they were running low on food, so they were forced to leave. They traveled from Tennesee and Georgia to the indian country. Many indians died on this walk. They were getting sick with many diseases as well. They were forced out by the indian remaval act and had to run away. While I was looking for the info, I had a lot of trouble finding it. I went to may search websties until i finally found one At PBS.org.
-lawrence
I also wanted to say that at first I had some difficulties finding a map but then when my group found a map of the trail of tears it was really easy to find all of our information.
my gorup was me(alexis),joanna, and weber. we were the women. we had a rough time beavcuse we werent communicating or working as a team. some of us were looking outthe window instead of helping find info. we found out that all the people who moved west went to california. we also learned about the gold rush, we also learned that women went west in search of freedom.we never found out were they started from and we never got to map out how they went(their jurney).i learned new things and i think we should do this again someday
*-->alexis<--*
today, my group was the farmer group. i was in a group with three people so one person was on the computer, one person lookede through the atlas, adn i looked through the books. it was really hard to find information, but i did find out that a lot of farmers ened up liveing there because there was good soil, ceder, forests and more to plant on. also, many people liekd to trade. i liked working like this in class but i think it would have been easier if we were assigned a websigt.
rachii
I would like to finish what i had started when i was on Tessa's profile (but thank you Tessa for letting me do some of it) As i said i had learned that the indains Removal Act was created by Andrew Jackson. They had to pack what they could carry and they moved from North Carolina to Oklahoma. I thought the act was a wrong thing to do. I also thought it was mean to make the indains move just because they didnt like them, also they moved them and they only moved them because they where greedy, they wanted more land then what they already had. And yes like Tessa said at first we did have trouble finding a map of the native American's trail but we just need to google it as the "trail of tears", because thats what they called it becuase of the starvion that accurd and many people had died.
My group was the "Farmers". We had a hard time on the laptops because we could not find out where they travled from. We used different resouces, and finally, we found some pretty good information. Some things were easy to find, like where they settled, and how they got to the west.
We worked well together and cooperated with one another.
- gabby@(o.O)@
My group members were me, Ashley and Dimitri. Our group was women and it was really difficult to find informations about it. I tried looking thorugh the books Ms.Sackstein gave us, I researched on the internet and also, I tried the library. I borrowed one book on the westward expansion but there was no information about how the women did. The only informations I got were that women went west freely.
My group was the gold miners. We traveled from New York and went to California. It was difficult to find information on the internet so while my partners were searching up things, I studied the books. I found a lot of interesting information and even my partners looked at it later on and said it was better than the internet. The gold miners moved west to find gold because everyone said that as soon as you got there, you were rich. That was true at first, but soon it got harder and harder. Eventually, people would spend 10 hours digging in an icy cold stream for gold and sometimes found nothing. They traveled in three different ways. On average, it took four months to get there by foot and four months to get there by boat via Cape Horn. The fastest way as to take a boat to the Panama and then take another boat to California. Not a lot of people went that way even if it was the fastest because lots of people got robbed, killed, or died of malaria there. People who traveled there on foot sometimes died of Indian Attacks starvation, dieseases, and dehydration. I thought that the most unfair part was that if someone got through all this, they still might not have found gold.
My group was me,Joseph, and James. We did the Railroad business. There were many railroads made when the WestWard expansion was beginning to settle down in the west.
- The first railroad was finished in 1869. It's route went across the country. There was an expedition when it was finished to see if the route was right.
- The point of the railroad was really to carry cattle to Eastern markets and supplies to western settlers.
- After 1860 the railroad was 4ft, 8 1/2 in.
- The transcontinental railroad would run through St. Louis, John Charles Vermont was going to lead a party westward, then pass over Rockies in vicinity in Cochetopa pass, Colorado. Fremont's party went through the Bill Williams pass, he was 12,327 feet in the San Juan mountains. The pool table Mesa was the next place he went on the expedition.
-Men and mules in the expedition died and were left behind. UTE Indians helped Fremont reach Taos and then he left there and went to California. Bill Williams party was working to get survivors out of the mountains.
I was the gold miners and I couldn't find a lot of facts. But I learned that they were traveling west to california because they found out there was gold rush there. There was three ways to get to california. One way was going on land. I took them about five to seven months to get there. There was another way. It was by sea. They had a stop in Panama. There was an another way, it took them the shortest time but most of the people didn't go that way because often they were robbed and killed. But when they got to california they were first rich but as the time went by it was very hard to get gold.
When my group was doing this assignment we were the farmers that moved here. At first we couldn't find anything descent. Most of the facts were usually mixed up with things we (in my opinion) didn't need to be added. I think that I still need more information. I think it searching it didn't really give a lot to know the farmers like experts but i did learn some knew thing about them. I learned that what drove them there was the Homestead Act of 1862 was signed.
They of course went there to farm, they believed the image of the west being no more then a desert wasn't true. Some troubles they faced was the lack of water and trees. Barbed wire however (once it was being sold in 1874) made a cheap way to make a fence but also helped windmills, more known as water mills to get water from underground (I think [this is one thing about the mixed up information that I tried to find]). The Natives were angry at the pioneers for scaring away the live stock and for destroying the land that they lived in. The pioneers was the second group to go out west.
my groop to day was the gold miner,
in jan 1848 jame swilson marshall discoverd gold rush
prblem > they left there familys for the gold rush .
the gold rush lasted 94 years.
whe they went left they had good heath when they left but as the days went by going past Downieille , nevacille, margsuill, coluoma, placervile, angek camp, shutters fourt, sacramento, they didnt have good heath and as the days went by they got use to there sicknees(or sea sick).
they took a boat.
my groop to day was the gold miner,
in jan 1848 jame swilson marshall discoverd gold rush
prblem > they left there familys for the gold rush .
the gold rush lasted 94 years.
whe they went left they had good heath when they left but as the days went by going past Downieille , nevacille, margsuill, coluoma, placervile, angek camp, shutters fourt, sacramento, they didnt have good heath and as the days went by they got use to there sicknees(or sea sick).
they took a boat.
my group was a railroad/business workers and I learned a little but not much because it was hard to find where they went and what happened to them, The one thing I do know is that they had a lot of asian, and black people working on the railroad because they thought that the asians could work faster.
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