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After looking at both the Oregon Trail and “When Rivers Were Trails”, both games show America’s past from different points…

Sorry for the lateness! Finding sources about the Story Robe for my Four Views Project was a little bit difficult….

Manifest Destiny was something that motivated settlers to push to the west for expansion and with this, came the idea…

Manifest Destiny is a 19th century doctrine that justifies expansion into the Americas.It was based on a belief in the…

The romanticized idea of westward expansion and manifest destiny in the minds of colonial settlers led to massive policy changes…

I would say that playing The Oregon Trail and When Rivers Were Trails is really a tale of two educational…

The ideas about manifest destiny profoundly influenced what we know as policy change in the United States during the 19th…

Approaching the history of removal as one period of “many removals” is very crucial for the understanding of the multifaceted…

After playing the Oregon Trail game in class and the When Rivers Were Trails game at home, I learned a…

Week nine was not an interesting week in my opinion. It focused a lot on manifest destiny and America’s progression…

It’s interesting to see the different viewpoints and stories that got the chance to be interpreted into games.  The Oregon…

One way to consider manifest destiny as destined that I think is particularly interesting is to look back to the…