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The Oregon Trail was 2,170 miles. Marcus and Narcissa Whitman were first to cross the Oregon Trail.
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Nancy Kelsey was the very first white to cross the Oregon Trail.
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Kit Carson, and John C. Fremont had explored the great basin.
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The Ute Indians had burned Fort Robidoux. Fort Robidoux was a trapper, who had a trapping liscense.
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70,000 Mormons, in just 20 years, had travelled the Mormon Pioneer Trail. They had crossed 5 ststes.
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The United States won the Mexican war.
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Ute Indians with the Walker war, had begun slavery against the Indians.
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John Brown had raided Harpers Ferry that sent in motion of events that had led directly of the outbreak to the civil war.
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1861- 1865 was the American civil war. Abraham Lincoln was a known opponent of slavery.