Why move west
- Created by: cassiarh01
- Created on: 17-04-18 16:28
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- Why move west?
- Pull factors for moving west
- Space
- Fertile land
- Oregon Trail
- Freedom and independence
- Gold
- Push factors for moving west
- Persecution
- Overpopulation
- Unemployment
- Collapse of wheat prices
- Financial panic in east USA
- Boom years in the 1830s came to an end in 1837 with a financial crisis
- Unemployment reached 25% in some areas
- Farming crisis in the mid-west of the USA
- 1837 - corn prices collapsed - farmers faced ruin
- Not helped by overcrowding in the fertile farming region
- PUSH factor for farmers to travel west
- 1837 - corn prices collapsed - farmers faced ruin
- Manifest Destiny
- US government needed to populate their territory in the west to defend it from foreign powers
- It was God's will that white Americans should settle over all of America. W.A. accepted that it was right and natural
- Pull factors for moving west
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