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Who Contributed Most to the Settling of the American West, Wagon Train Migrants or Gold Miners?
- Essay length: 1089 words
- Submitted: 22/08/2003
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Marked by teacher:
Kate Forbes
Teacher essay summary
On the whole a well focussed answer which shows a good level of knowledge and understanding of the issue. It needed a better structure and could have looked at the impact of the migrants first in some depth and then as a contrast looked at the ways the miners helped to develop to develop the west. This would have allowed for more explanation of the impact of each group.
Marked by teacher Kate Forbes 20/05/2112
The first 200 words of this essay...
Who Contributed Most to the Settling of the American West, Wagon Train Migrants or Gold Miners?
It is difficult to decide who contributed most to the settling of the American west because each group played a role in its settlement. Originally, the west had been populated by Native Americans, and later the mountain men and trappers as well. Nobody would have gone west if the tales of the mountain men hadn't been told, so indirectly, perhaps the mountain men contributed the most to the settlement as they were the cause of the thousands of people who were later to come. Between the years 1840 - 1860, the west dramatically changed. Wagon train pioneers began migrating in 1840 to Oregon and California, and when gold was discovered in California in 1848, it persuaded the gold miners to travel there. Eventually towns and communications were established further developing the west, but did one group succeed more than the other?
There were many reasons for the wagon train migrants to head west. They were suffering an economic depression, so the cost they sold their crops for was too low to live off. They had heard that Oregon had plenty of rich,
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MbT essay summary
On the whole a well focussed answer which shows a good level of knowledge and understanding of the issue. It needed a better structure and could have looked at the impact of the migrants first in some depth and then as a contrast looked at the ways the miners helped to develop to develop the west. This would have allowed for more explanation of the impact of each group.
