• own land, start businesses, build new lives

• religious freedom

• fur trappers​

Opportutnities and Challenges

• ​buy land in 640-acre tracts

• allow settlers in territories to organize into states

• outlaw slavery in the territories​

Northwest Ordinance

Why did Americans move West?

Heading into the West

• territories gained by war or treaties (Florida, Oregon, SW States)

• settlers follow the rivers (Mohawk R to Lake Erie; Pittsburgh to Ohio R; Missouri R; Platte R)

• A​merican System: tariffs to protect industry; national bank to promote business growth; tariffs and sale of public lands fun roads, canals, and other improvements

• transportation technology: steamboats, canals, National Road​

• rapid population shift to the West

• frontier continuously moving further West

• sectional differences continue to build​

Changing the Country

• lots of resources- required hard labor

• traditional roles for men and women shift- everyone does everything​

Settlers build new lives

Movement Changes the West and the nation

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