Many former slaves moved west in the 1800s. Northerner's feared freed slaves would take their jobs. They did not want to stay in the hostile South.
They were seeking work and adventure, and some wanted land.
There was more room and the ground was more fertile
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They fled to the South and to the West because of racism and the search for new industrial jobs.
Logging, farming,the gold rush,and freedom for slaves
false they moved east
Industries moved west in the 1800s.
The pioneers started to move from the east and midwest to the west in the mid 1800s looking for gold and better life.
The African nation founded by former American slaves was Liberia.
Many different farmers settled in Kansas starting in 1854. Mennonites came from Russia and brought wheat farming techniques with them, for example, and former slaves move to West Kansas, especially in Graham County. However, by the end of the 1800s, the largest group of immigrants were German-speaking people from Germany and Russia.
The Republic of Liberia is the only country in West Africa that was founded for freed slaves. Sierra Leone began offering shelter to former slaves in 1792, but the country was not founded for freed slaves.
They were seeking work and adventure, and some wanted land.
In the 1700s, more slaves from West Africa were sent to the Caribbean than to South America. In the 1800s, about the same amount of slaves were sent from West Africa to both places.
There was more room and the ground was more fertile
California gold rush
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a. fewer social restrictions gave settlers more opportunities to pursue wealth in the west