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Thursday, 3/08• Please pick-up a Push/Pull Note Sheet.• Think of three reasons why you may have
been pushed to go West.
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Heading West – Push/Pull!
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In 1780, 2.7 million people lived in 13 states
Fifty years later . . .
In 1830, 12 million people lived in 24 states
Why do people
move west?
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The average family had
five children at this time!
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Push Factors Cause People to Leave Home!
Why did Cowboys leave home?
What forced Exodusters to move?
Why did Native Americans migrate West?
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Push Factors
Think about . . .
What “pushed” you out of bed today?
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Pull Factors Draws People to New Location!
Why did Railroad Workers end up in California?
What led Mormons to settle in Utah?
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Pull Factors
Think about this . . .
What “pulled” you to SS today?
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Push Factors to the West
Overcrowding (you need a new place to live)
Need for jobs (displaced workers)
Ethnic/Religious repression
Refuge for outlaws
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Land (cheap and plentiful)
Riches (gold, silver, later oil)
Freedom of religion/beliefs
Family connections
Jobs and new opportunities
Pull Factors to the West
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Adventure!
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Or maybe to find LOVE
Perhaps a mail-order bride?
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Today . . .
What are some modern day examples of push/pull?
–Poor economy - people move for jobs
–New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina evacuations
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What encouraged (or pushed) so many Americans to go West (or did they get pulled West)?
A belief in the philosophy of Manifest Destiny, which stated that …..
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…. God, …, clearly wanted hard–working American(s) to occupy North America. It was inevitable and good that the United States occupy the continent “from sea to shining sea.”
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“It is,” he wrote, “our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.”
John L. O’Sullivan (editor) gave these ideas a name: Manifest Destiny
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What incentives does the government provide to help fulfill this “manifest destiny” and pull people west?
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Incentives to go west #1:Homestead Act – for approximately $10, settlers could have 160 acres of
western land, if they met certain criteria:
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• American citizens who were 21 years or older, or the head of a household
• Built a home on their lot, and lived in it at least 6 mos. of the year
• Farmed the land for 5 years or more
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Mr. & Mrs. David Vincent and daughter, Martha, by their sod house near White River, South Dakota
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Sod •Tough layer of prairie sod. The turf is held together for a depth of about a foot. The durability of the sod layer prevents erosion from taking place at the same rate as on the deposits below it.
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Sod Houses - Interior
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•Imagine the isolation felt by the homesteaders!
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Incentives to go west #2:
The Pacific Railways Act
–Granted railroads 10 square miles on either side of each track they laid to the west
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What did the railroads do with all that land?
They Sold It!!
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Incentive to go west #3:
Morrill-Land Grants–Gave land to state educational
facilities with curriculum tied to agriculture and mechanical arts (Texas A&M, Oklahoma A&M, etc.)
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…states were given land in the west in exchange for opening up colleges – even Delaware!
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What potential conflicts might occur as a result of all this movement?
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Let’s Check This Area Out!
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