Migration

Question 1

Pull factors in migration

Answer 1

Gold rush 1849
free/cheap farmland
New life
New jobs
Success of other migrants 1836

Question 2

Manifest destiny

Answer 2

The belief that white Americans had the god given right to expand west and populate America

Question 3

Push factors in migration

Answer 3

Mormon persecution
Recession 1837
Manifest destiny

Question 4

Fort Laramie treaty

Answer 4

1851
Funded reservations

Question 5

Indian removal act

Answer 5

1830
Moved 48000 natives west of the Mississippi

Question 6

Indian trade and intercourse act

Answer 6

1834
Prevented trade and interaction between white and native Americans
Established permanent Indian frontier

Question 7

Success of Mexico~American war

Answer 7

1848
Us gained territory in west

Question 8

Fort Laramie treaty

Answer 8

1851. Native American independence on US government
      $50,000 to natives
      Indian reservations
      Indians agreed to allow white migrants through land without attack
      Removed permanent Indian frontier

Question 9

Indian appropriations act

Answer 9

1851
Funded Indian reservations

Question 10

Mormon migration

Answer 10

1846-47

Question 11

Who led the Mormon migration?

Answer 11

Brigham young

Question 12

Why did the mormons migrate? To where?

Answer 12

Salt Lake City.
Persecution, many Christian’s saw them as blasphemous because they practised polygamy
Pro-Indian
Anti-slavery
Banned from Illinois in 1846

Question 13

Why were Mormons successful in Salt Lake City?

Answer 13

Small groups of 100
Migration party consisted of many skilled people
Irrigation systems to farm
Advance party of 180 mapped route

Question 14

Donner party

Answer 14

1846
More women and children than usual
Party of 80 took a shortcut and got stuck
Resorted to cannibalism to survive
Set off too late

Question 15

Significance of Donner party failure

Answer 15

Mormons usedq them as a lesson, brought people of various skills, mapped the route