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Key Questions Why did Americans choose to move west? Why was the journey so difficult? Why did the United Sates government acquire new land? Why was Washington chosen as the first President? What does the term Manifest Destiny mean? Where was our nation's first capitol? Links http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bdsds/bdsdhome.html Documents from the Constitutional Congress. http://www.whitehouse.gov/ The official White House site http://www.pbs.org/opb/oregontrail/index.html Oregon Trail information from PBS http://www.nps.gov/jeff/mus-tour.htm Museum of Westward Expansion from the National Park Service http://www.americanwest.com/pages/awexpans.htm Brief History of Westward Expansion from American West web site
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