History 200

History 200 DE

Week 5

Dr. Bruce Haulman

Welcome to Week 5 of Pacific Northwest History

Euro-American Settlement
Whitman Incident
Oregon Trail
Gold Rushes
Indian Treaties
Minorities in the PNW

This week your first Museum/Historic Site Visit paper is due. Remember to copy and paste your paper in your email. That makes my life much easier! bhaulman@greenriver.edu

To complete this fifth week of the class you need to do the following Eight (8) things:

1. Read the Profile "The Whitman Tragedy at Waiilatpu," Chapter 5 "Bound for the Promised Land," Chapter 6 "Oregon Country," Chapter 7 "Growing Pains," and Chapter 8 "Holes in the Social Fabric" in Schwantes. Visit the Study Guide for help in identifying important concepts

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2. Whitman reading (5.1)

Read the article by Julie Roy Jefferies and write a short (one page or so) comparison of her view of the Whitman Incident and Carlos Schwantes view in his Profile "The Whitman Tragedy at Waiilatpu."

Click on this link to email me your comparison: bhaulman@greenriver.edu

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3. Oregon Trail

Visit two of the four web sites listed below and learn about the Oregon Trail.

Oregon National Historic Trail http://www.nps.gov/oreg/

The National Oregon/California Trail Center http://www.oregontrailcenter.org/

Oregon Trail Homepage http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html

Oregon Historical Society - Portland http://www.ohs.org/

End of the Oregon Trail Interpretive Center - Oregon City, Oregon http://www.endoftheoregontrail.org

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Scotts Bluff National Monument © CSM

4. Gold Rushes

Use the map on Page 132 in Schwantes to identify where the gold rushes in the Pacific Northwest were located. Search the Internet to find information on any of these rushes. Then e-mail me the URL or web address of the site you found, a short description of the site, and what you learned

Click on this link to email me the web site you found on the gold rush, a short description of the site, and what you learned bhaulman@greenriver.edu

Miners @ CHS

5. Indian Treaties

Click on this link to go to the Medicine Creek Treaty. Read the Language of the Treaty and try to understand how Indians and whites had different interpretations.

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6. Indians, Blacks, Asians, Mormons, & Women

Click on this link to go to the question about the "Holes in the Social Fabric." Read the question and write a short answer, one page or so, and email it to me.

Click on this link to email me your one page bhaulman@greenriver.edu

7. Complete Quiz # 3 - click on the link in the Lessons Tab to take Quiz # 3.

8. Post a comment about the changes brought by settlement and the gold rushes in the Pacific Northwest to the Message Board in the Lessons Tab. Go to the Message Board in the Lessons Tab.

These Eight (8) assignments conclude the fifth week of this class.