Factors of migration
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- Created on: 23-06-18 12:20
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- Factors of migration
- Problems in the east
- 1837 Economic depression
- End of Civil War
- Lack of farming space
- Oregon Trail 1836
- Laid by fur-trappers and traders
- Created better route to Oregon
- Faster
- Cheaper
- Safer
- Cheaper
- Faster
- Gold Rush 1849
- Gold found in foothills of Sierra Nevada mountain range
- Advertised & credited by Government
- People swarmed
- Chinese
- Disliked
- Hispanics
- Disliked
- California's population increased by 20,000 in from 1849-52
- Chinese
- People swarmed
- Manifest Destiny
- God-given right to colonise and civilise all of America
- Problems in the east
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