Settlers
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- Created on: 07-05-14 15:12
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- Settlers
- The Pioneers
- Why leave the East?
- No jobs in the east
- Over population
- Poverty and disease
- Why move West?
- Cheap land
- Jobs available on the rail roads
- Fertile land
- Oregon and California routes taken by Pioneers in Wagons
- Why leave the East?
- Homesteaders
- 1862 Homestead act
- Gave people 160 acres of free land to anyone who settled for 5 years
- Freed slaves and ex-army soldiers moved after the civil war looking for a fresh start
- Problems faced
- No trees to build houses
- windpumps/mills
- Lack of water
- built sod houses
- Drought in summer
- dry farming methods developed
- No trees to build houses
- 1862 Homestead act
- Mormons
- Development
- Founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith
- Visited by the Angel Moroni
- Translated golden plates and wrote the book of Mormon
- Founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith
- Unpopular
- Practised polygamy
- Bank of Mormon collapsed losing peoples money
- Believed they were Christs chosen people
- Movement
- From Kirtland
- To Missouri
- To Nauvoo
- Joseph Smith killed in prison
- Brigham young took over
- Moved to Salt Lake
- Prepared all winter
- Problems faced
- Little water
- developed irrigation systems
- No trees
- houses built with mud bricks
- Not enough people
- Perpetual Emigration Fund
- Little water
- Moved to Salt Lake
- Brigham young took over
- Joseph Smith killed in prison
- To Nauvoo
- To Missouri
- From Kirtland
- Development
- The Pioneers
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