SANTA FE TRAILBy: Belen Mendoza

How did the trail impact society?◦The Santa Fe Trail impacted society because it was used to trade goods. Goods traded included needles, thread, buttons, shawls, handkerchiefs, knives, files, axes, tools, and even in 1824 “green spectacles.

How did the trail affect individuals, communities, states, nations, and the world? What is its affect today?◦The Trail affected individuals, communities, states, nations, and the world because the route connected Missouri to Santa Fe and led cultures to collaborate.

How did the trail impact society?

◦The people of the Texas panhandle and the Great Plains would trade buffalo meat and products of the buffalo with the Pueblos of New Mexico for agricultural products such as beans, corn, and squash which led most traders.

The map of the Santa Fe Trail

Fun Facts ◦The people of the Texas panhandle and the Great Plains would trade buffalo meat and products of the buffalo with the Pueblos of New Mexico for agricultural products such as beans, corn, and squash which led most traders.

◦In 1846, the Mexican-American War began. The Army of the West followed the Santa Fe Trail to invade New Mexico.

◦. The Trail opened in 1821, the year Mexico gained its independence from Spain. A decade later, the Trail had two main routes: the Mountain Fork, which went through Colorado, and the Cimarron Fork, which went through Kansas.

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