Moving West

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Moving West
PowerPoint Presentation by Toshia Shackleford
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Why Move West?

• Push/Pull Theory
• Pushed to find better paying jobs
• Pushed to find more land
• Pulled to move west to make a better living
• Pulled for the opportunity to buy better land

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Traveling West

• How did they travel?
• Wagons pulled by oxen

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Steamboat
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• Stagecoach

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Frontier Problems

• Harsh weather
• Sickness
• Insufficient food
• Attacked by enemies
• Prairie fires

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Farms infested with grasshoppers
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Role of Men

• Farmed in the fields
• Hunted
• Role of Women
• Helped men on farms
• Cooked
• Made quilts and sewed

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• Photos courtesy of The Library of Congress and
  The American Memory Collection