Looking to the West (1860-1900) ◊Miners, Ranchers, Farmers, Cowboys, Workers.
Looking to the West Chapter 14 1860-1900
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Looking to the WestChapter 141860-1900
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Focus Questions
• Now: Why do people migrate or move?• What conditions lured people to migrate to
the West?• Where did the western settlers come from?• How did the American frontier shift
westward?
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Key Terms
• Push-pull factors• Pacific Railway Acts• Morrill Land-Grant Act• Land speculator• Homestead Act• Exoduster
160 football fields next to one another is approximately 160 acres of land!
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Settlers
• European immigrants– German settlers established farms in the Great Plains.
• New religions– Scandinavian Lutherans settled the northern plains
from Iowa to Minnesota• Concentrated communities (Irish, Italians,
European Jews, Chinese)• Dairy farming, mining, railroad construction• Ranching, farm labor
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Northwest RegionSouthwest Region
Great Plains RegionMidwest Region
Northeast RegionSoutheast Region
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The Shifting Frontier
• Various regions were settled at different times.
• Settlements dotted the prairie every 10 miles or so.
• Native Americans
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Write Now!
• You were an unemployed eastern factory worker with a family who moved to Kansas. Write a letter to a friend back East, describing this new place and why you made this risky move.
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TRUE OR FALSE??
• American expansion into the West led to the near destruction of Native American societies?
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