migration and gold Flashcards

1
Q

what is manifest destiny

A

white settlers belief that them going to the plains was bringing civilisation and christianity to the Indians and that it was their god given right to settle the land.

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2
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3 push factors making people leave the east coast

A
  1. winters were very harsh and often led to bad health
  2. poor farmland
  3. minorities targeted eg. religous persecution, gingers
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3
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3 pull factors making people go to the west

A
  1. mountain men told fascinating stories about the west
  2. lots of fertile, free land
  3. gold discovered, good for economics
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4
Q

when was gold discovered, who discovered it

A

1848
James Marshal was the 1st american who discovered it

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5
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how many people went to california after it was discovered - within a decade (10 years)

A

250,000 million
1/4 million

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6
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how many people got cholera by the time they reached fort laramie

A

1,500 people

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7
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when gold was discovered in 1848 who was the president

A

James Polk

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8
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by ship how long did it take to get to california, how else could people get there

A

5 months
over the frontier

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9
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in 1846 which group of people tried to get to california for the gold

A

the Donner Party

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10
Q

how many people were in the donner party, how many wagons

A

300 migrants, 60 wagons

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11
Q

what went wrong for the donner party

4 main reasons

A

they found a short cut that had been written about by a man called Hastings, even though Hastings hadn’t actually used it before.
This route was not cut out, had steep slopes, and it went over streches of desert (it was not a short cut)

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12
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why didn’t many survive from the donner party and when did the first die

A

their livestock ran out and the first migrants died of starvation on 15th December

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13
Q

who was the original leader of the mormons and what happened to him

A

Joseph smith
he believed in polygamy and had multiple wives

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