Pull Factors
Push Factors
Cattle
Prairie Life
Vocabulary
100
Large Land Grants to railroads, which made transportation easier.
What is The Pacific Railroad Act
100
Displaced people Ethnic and religious repression or Mormons, African Americans and Immigrants Failed entrepreneurs Expensive farm land
What are push factors
100
The Industry that contributed to the creation of the American Cowboy
What is the Cattle Industry
100
Homes that were cut out of the side of mountains.
What are dugout homes
100
The process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation
What is Assimilation
200
Small fee settlers received 160 acres of land if they are 21, American citizens built a house, and farm for 5 years.
What is The Homestead Act
200
Segregation and Discrimination based on color and religious preferences
What is Ethnic and Religious Repression
200
The 3-4 month journey were cowboys covered 10-20 miles per day moving cattle.
What is a Cattle Drive
200
Dry hot summers, prairie fires, hail storms and grasshopper plagues were common.
What is Prairie Life
200
The idea that different groups have different cultures and identities.
What is Pluralism
300
Gave states millions of western land that they could sell to produce colleges (education was spreading throughout society)
What is The Morrill-Land Grant Act
300
A negative aspect that causes a person or group to leave a certain religion or place (country or state)
What is a push factor
300
The Trail were cattle were moved from Texas to Abilene
What is The Chisholm Trail
300
The type of plagues that were common in prairie life.
What is a grasshopper
300
Government policies and administrative practices that have an effect on something.
What are Political Factors
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