Usi.8b factors influencing westward movement

Westward Expansion SOL US1.8b

Essential Knowledge
Westward migration was influenced by geography and economic opportunity.

Key Words
Migration: movement from one place to another

Geographic and Economic Features that Influenced Westward Movement

Population growth in eastern cities
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1132/1458200131_d21f00cbf7.jpg?v=0

Availability of cheap, fertile land

Economic opportunity i.e., gold (California Gold Rush,) logging, farming, freedom (for runaway slaves)
http://eetdnews.lbl.gov/nl23/img/gold_rush.jpg

Cheaper and faster transportation, i.e., rivers and canals (Erie Canal), steamboats
http://rivertorail.mjcpl.org/index.php?s=steamboatdevelopment Robert Fulton’s Clermont steamboat http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=65063&rendTypeId=4 A town on the Erie Canal.

Knowledge of overland trails (Oregon and Santa Fe Trails)
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/graphics/santafetrailmaplarge.jpg http://www.casperwyoming.info/downloads/maps/oregontrail.gif

Belief in the right of “Manifest Destiny,” the idea that expansion was the right of the country
http://www.cyberbee.com/manifest_destiny/destiny.jpg How did Manifest Destiny affect the American Indians?

http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/~walters/web%20103/manifest%20destiny.jpg What does this woman represent?

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