history- the american west c.1840-1895 part 2
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- Created on: 27-04-13 20:12
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trails
- 1840's mountain men had knowledge of the routes
- mountain men were full of survival skills and usually married Native US wives
why people went west
- push and pull factors
- 2000 miles - 5 months
- donner party- trapped in thick snow (winter was deadly)
- costed a lot to travel but also created jobs- wagon helpers, moutain men ...etc
- manifest destiny- white people was their god-given right (1845)
settlers on the plains
- began 1850's gradually settlers edged west
- homestead Act 1862 - 160 acres free to settlers who occupied for 5 years
- transontinental railways helped this
life on the plains
- sod houses (turf)
- sod busters (expensive steel ploughs)
- little wood so buffalo dung / cow pats used
- extreme climates
- grasshopper plagues
- women took part in much more decision making
- women- housework, educating, maintain gardens and animals, experienced lonliness
gold rush
- 1848 - james marshall…
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