Why did people start to settle on the Plains?
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- Created on: 06-06-13 12:50
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- Why did people start to settle on the Plains?
- Pull Factors
- Advertising by states and railroad companies
- All these companies organized their own advertising campaigns to entice people on the Plains
- The Timber Culture Act - 1873
- The government realized that 160 acres wasn't enough to support a family
- This allowed homesteader families to claim a further 160 acres as long as they planted trees on half of it
- The government realized that 160 acres wasn't enough to support a family
- The Home stead Act - 1862
- Allowing families 160 acres of land free as long as they lived on it and farmed it for 5 years
- Letters home from from those who had already gone west
- The letters encouraged people to move as well
- Advertising by states and railroad companies
- Push Factors
- Religious Persecution
- Religious groups such as Jews and the Amish wanted to move on to the Plains
- The End of the American Civil War - 1865
- Slaves gained their freedom
- Many of the freed slaves wanted to escape persecution from the South so they moved on to the Plains
- Many ex-soldiers were looking to start a new life and they could do this on the Plains
- Slaves gained their freedom
- Escaping unemployment and poverty
- The English, Germans, Irish, Russians and Scots moved on to the Plains to escape unemployment and poverty in their own country
- Religious Persecution
- Pull Factors
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