Push factors that caused people to leave their homes included overcrowding, lack of jobs, and religious repression, while pull factors attracting people to new places included cheap and abundant land, opportunities for riches, freedom of religion, family connections, jobs, adventure, and even finding love. Many people moved west in the 1800s due to the philosophy of Manifest Destiny and promises of a new life, traveling by stagecoach, wagon, horseback or even walking, often lured by incentives from the U.S. government like the Homestead and Pacific Railways Acts.

2. • Push factor, what causes or forces people to leave
• Pull factor, what leads or attracts people to a specific place?

3. • Overcrowding
• Need for jobs
• Ethnic/Religious
repression
• Refuge for outlaws

4. • Land (cheap and plentiful)
• Riches (gold, silver, oil)
• Freedom of religion/beliefs
• Family connections
• Jobs and new opportunities
• Adventure
• Maybe to find love

5. • Many people moved out west
because they believed in the
philosophy of Manifest
Destiny, which was the belief
that America was destined to
expand from coast to coast
• The primary method of travel to
the west was
stagecoach, wagon or
horseback, some even walked
• Most who traveled out West
were hoping for a new life
• A lot were given incentives to
go by the US Government, like
the Homestead Act or the
Pacific Railways Act