Selling the Heartland
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German Immigration to Kansas
What is the difference?
Immigration- a person entering a country
Emigration- a person exiting their country
1854
Kansas was opened to settlement 250,000 Germans set out to emigrate
Emigration
Crossing last 40 days Bunk: 10 ft by 5ft and 3ft high Sailing hazards Fire Disease
Ship Overcrowding
Emigration
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1819-1829
1850-1900
Emigration
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1st Qtr
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Homestead Act
160 acre land plots Public domain lands to farmers Improve the land New Immigrants
Pacific Railway Act
Allotments of Public Subsidize building of railroads Railroads would sell land holdings
Railroads over seas
Kansas Pacific Santa Fe Ellinwood, Kansas
Homestead Farm
German Settlement
German Belt New England Emigrant Aid Society Fort Leavenworth Atchison
Other Aid Groups
German Society of Pennsylvania New York, Pittsburg, Milwaukee, St. Paul
Practical Counsel and Information for German Emigrants
Offers to arrivals Employment Legal Aid Banking services Information
German Belt
Chicago, Illinois Cincinnati, Ohio Indiana Missouri Wisconsin Iowa
Atchison
Kansas Zeitung First to sell the heartland Reach Germans on both sides of the
Atlantic
Why would you need to sell Kansas?
Know as the great American desert 1870- only 13% of Kansas’ population 1870- 25% of Nebraska population
Der Courier
Took on the Great American Desert “They also show they abundant
rainfall to be quite sufficient and that the attribute ‘dry’ is utterly unwarranted.
Illinois Zeitung
Craftsmen $2-4 Buy farm land at $1.25 Horse cost $60-100 Cattle $16-30
Standard/Benchmark/Indicator
Citation
"Selling the Heartland: Agents, Agencies, Press and Policies Promoting German Emigration to Kansas in the Nineteenth Century." Kansas History 12 (Autumn 1989): 150-159.