Western Settlement Flashcards
Why go West? What was the push and pull effect?
4 points
Free land in the East with 160 acres of land-farming and free labour.
Religion was persecuted in the east
The west was beyond government reach
Financial reasons, eg in the east lawyers and suppliers got more money than miners.
What stopped some from going West?
5 points
Cost money
Loneliness
Open to corruption
Small and Vast
Transportation
How did technology shift the way the west was utilised?
Reduced communication times - Pony Express (telegram)
Reduced travel time (despite corruption) - Priarie Schooner, transcontentional rail road
Scythe combine harvester for farmers
Refrigerated railroad cars - Chicago meat packing and reduced costs.
Destruction of native lands
High tensions between natives and outlanders.
outlanders entered native territory
Fort Laramie Treaty: Peace between the tribes was swiftly broken
Natives were less civilised making it harder to work with.
