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Sept 9 Notes (The West)
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Undeveloped region at the edge of a settled area
What is a frontier?
Open for development Can provide adventure &
discovery Can be conquered
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Manifest Destiny
1840s ~ Expansion Fever
Belief that it was the American destiny to expand to the Pacific & develop it for future generations
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“Great American Desert”Pre-1860, most did not
want to risk moving WestGreat Plains were arid
(dry) and without forests
Difficult to set up farms
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Millions of people settled in the Great Plains and beyond
after 1860.
WHY???
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Granted land to RRsGov. Promoted
Settlement Transcontinental RRs
completed
RRs sold land to settlers
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Homestead Act (1862)Gov. Promoted
Settlement Offered 160
acres of FREE land to anyone who would live on it and cultivate it for 5 years
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Free land and RRs were BOTH needed to attract settlers!
Settlers needed a reliable way to trade with the
East.
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Who went West?People of all ethnicities,
but most were wealthy, white, native-born farming families
3/4 of migrants were men
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Much of the land was only suitable for ranching, not farming
Settlers Faced Hardships
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Natural disastersSettlers Faced
Hardships
Droughts
Blizzards
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Raids by outlaws or IndiansSettlers Faced
Hardships
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Very few treesSettlers Faced
Hardships Had to live in sod
houses
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Difficult to farm the land, and new farming inventions could be expensive
Settlers Faced Hardships
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2/3 of settlers stayed, but many
were angry by 1890 because they were not very successful
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