Moving Westward By:Sarah H and Brooke J

Louisiana purchase

Jun 4, 1803

Made the US ten times larger

covered wagon movement

Dec 24, 1804

people travled west in covered wagons

Lewis and Clark

Aug 31, 1812

they were explorers http://www.nps.gov/jeff/historyculture/the-lewis-and-clark-journey-of-discovery.htm

Oregon becomes a state

Feb 14, 1859

our state is now a part of the USA

railroad

May 10, 1869

made it easier and safer to travel wesdt Transcontinental Railroadeasyer and safer to travel west now