Why did so many people move west to California and Oregon?
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- Why did so many people move west to California and Oregon?
- Pull Factor
- Pre-emption Bill - 1842
- Farmers could squat on a piece of land, clear the trees and build a house on it and only have to pay a small sum to buy the land.
- The Mountain Men
- They reported that, in Oregon, the land was perfect for farming and the rivers were full of fish.
- They described California as a place where the sun always shone and fruit grew everywhere.
- Starting a new life in California
- California was ideal for growing grapes and cotton
- Wine and brandy could be produced there in great quantities
- Cotton could be sold to the British to be turned into cloth in the cotton mills of Northern England
- There were huge quantities of empty land in the West
- Pre-emption Bill - 1842
- Push Factor
- Economic depression - 1837
- People lost their savings
- Wages were cut by 40%
- Massive unemployment in the East
- 20,000 unemployed people demonstrated in Philadelphia - 1838
- Farmers in the Mississippi Valley wanted to leave.
- The price of wheat and corn that they grew collapsed
- The farmers faced ruin
- The price of wheat and corn that they grew collapsed
- Economic depression - 1837
- Pull Factor
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