Push
What is a Push Factor?
A factor that causes people to leave their homelands and migrate to another region
What is a Pull Factor?
Something that is pulling you towards a new place. (Positive)
What is a Canal?
An artificial waterway constructed to allow the passage of boats or ships inland or to convey water for irrigation.
What two people made a journey to discovery and map the west?
Lewis & Clark
What Land Purchase was made from France in 1803?
1803 purchase of the Louisiana territory from France. Made by Jefferson, this doubled the size of the US.
What is one Push Factor for Westward Expansion.
Lack of land, resources, jobs ECT.
What is one Pull factor for Westward Expansion?
Land, Gold, Jobs, Opportunity ECT.
What were the importance of Bison?
buffalo- important natural resource for Native Americans in the West.
What is Manifest Destiny?
The widely held belief that Americans had the right granted by God for westward expansion and were destined to conquer from the Atlantic the Pacific.
What was a result of the Mexican War?
The Mexican Cession
What Push Factor caused native people to move further west?
The Indian removal Act law passed in 1830 that forced many Native American nations to move west of the Mississippi River.
Name a specific Pull factor for The California Gold rush.
Get wealth through gold.
What are Native Reservations?
The locations where Native Americans were forced to live after they were kicked our of their homelands. Living conditions were usually very poor, without clean water or fertile soil.
Name two negative outcomes of Westward Expansion
Massive destruction of nature and native species such as the American Bison
What was Oregon Country
Territory under "joint occupation" by US & Britain; increased immigration & interest; missionaries failed to convert residing natives
What was the Homestead act?
This allowed a settler to acquire 160 acres by living on it for five years, improving it and paying approximately $30
Who helped Louis and Clark on their journey?
Sacagewea an American Indian woman that helped Lewis and Clark on their expedition.
Name 2 positive outcomes of Westward Expansion
More resources for Western Americans Modernization of the West
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How did the Dawes Act lead to Territory gain?
Allowed the federal government to break up native lands which lead to more American settlements in the west
Name a Push Factor for Mormons traveling on the Mormon Trail.
Religious prosecution
What was gained from The Gadsden Purchase of 1853?
US buys land from Mexico for 10 million to build a railroad