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What attracted Settlers To The Great Plains?

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What attracted Settlers To The Great Plains?

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There were two main things that attracted settlers to the Great Plains in the late 19th century. The first of these things was the lure of large amounts of relatively cheap land that could be cultivated. The government helped with this by enacting the Homestead Act of 1862, which gave settlers free land.

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They had to adapt to the conditions of the physical geography. It made some things harder to do.

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What Was Invented To Improve Agriculture.

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What Was Invented To Improve Agriculture.

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Historians agree that the steel plow helped the American West develop at a fast rate. When it is easier to grow crops, more food is produced, and the population can grow. As technology progressed, the plow evolved and helped people carry out various functions on a farm.

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What Hardships Were There? Why Did Some Leave/Stay?

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What Hardships Were There? Why Did Some Leave/Stay?

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Settlers faced challenges such as droughts and heavy winters. The plains were also extremely isolated, this makes living harder for widowed women because they have no men or neighbors present around them for protection. Diseases were also a big concern because there was no medical treatment on those lands. After 1865, thousands of settlers moved onto the Plains. Freed slaves went there to start a new life as freemen, or to escape economic problems after the Civil War. European immigrants flooded onto the Great Plains, seeking political or religious freedom, or simply to escape poverty in their own country.

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https://www.fasttrackteaching.com/ffap/Unit_2_Westward/U2_adaptations_inventions_plains.html

https://www.britannica.com/place/Great-Plains

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This was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson on May 28, 1830, authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi, in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders. A few tribes went peacefully, but many resisted the relocation policy. This is why the Native Americans were forced off their land.

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What is assimilation? It is the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.

How did the government encourage assimilation? To encourage assimilation, the government passed a law called the Dawes Act in 1887. It offered free farm land and help for Indian families that chose to leave their tribe and become settled, independent farmers.

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They had a war and were killing a lot of buffalo. There were a lot of massacres.Many Indians refused to be confined to reservations. These tribes engaged in a constant battle with non-Indians, raiding settlements and attacking troop installments throughout the late 1860s and 1870s.

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https://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/westwardexpansion/section11/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_assimilation_of_Native_Americans

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Gold seekers came from lands accessible by boat, such as Oregon, the Sandwich Islands, Mexico, Chile, Peru and even China.

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Sutter enslaved hundreds of Native Americans and used them as a free source of labor and makeshift militia to defend his territory and expand his empire. Also, the lack of housing, sanitation, and law enforcement in the mining camps and surrounding areas created a dangerous mix. Crime rates in the goldfields were extremely high. Vigilante justice was frequently the only response to criminal activity left unchecked by the absence of effective law enforcement.

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American Progress visually portrays the process of American westward expansion. The figure of Progress is ushering an era of modernization, development, and advancement to the West, which in the painting is portrayed as a dark and savage place, especially when compared to the eastern side of the painting.

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Rivers became clogged with sediment, forests were ravaged to produce timber, biodiversity was compromised, and soil was polluted with chemicals from the mining process. Because the land was destroyed it also started negatively effecting the livestock. Which in turn of course would effect the people that depended on the land and livestock.

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It helped finance the Civil War, it helped California eventually enter the Union as a free state, and it helped San Francisco grow as a city. It went from about 1,000 people in 1847 to about 3,500 people in 1849.

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The peaceful people indigenous to the area were decimated and perished in great numbers from starvation, disease, abuse, and massacre. Their society, habitat, infrastructure, and culture were destroyed. Lands and environments were destroyed because of floods of mud.

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The Gold Rush significantly influenced the history of California and the United States. It created a lasting impact by propelling significant industrial and agricultural development and helped shape the course of California's development by spurring its economic growth and facilitating its transition to statehood.

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How Did The Gold Rush Effect California's Population?

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How Did The Gold Rush Effect California's Population?

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People flocked there in search of gold and the population grew substantially.

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https://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion/gold-rush-of-1849

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There were a lot of people and not a lot of room in the U.S. Then in 1803 Thomas Jefferson made a deal with Napoleon to sell some land and that was the Louisiana Purchase. The video left out the part about the Trail of Tears. The Trail of Tears was where ¼ of the Cherokee Indian tribe died when they were forced to give up their land east of the Mississippi river and traveled to modern day Oklahoma. Then Lewis and Clark hired a Sacagawea Indian to guide them through the west until they reached the coast. It was called Manifest Destiny when traders, trappers made the path that would be known as the Oregon Trail, from 1811 to 1840.The Gold Rush trampled down the wilderness and railroads opened up from east to west.

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How Manifest Destiny Impacted Westward Expansion

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How Manifest Destiny Impacted Westward Expansion

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Manifest Destiny was thought up in 1845. The advocates of it thought that the United States were destined by God, to expand it's control and spread democracy and capitalism across all of North America.

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https://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion/gold-rush-of-1849